This is very sad news, that something like the Flu can still do this, I wonder if they did a thorough inspection of the surrounding of what caused this.

Four reports of flu outbreaks involving 88 people in kindergartens and primary schools in Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Yau Tong were announced last night. Most of the patients, aged from three to 42, had recovered, the Centre for Health Protection said.

Legislator for the medical sector Kwok Ka-ki said the Hospital Authority should be better prepared for flu outbreaks. "Faced with demands in admission, hospitals should try to scale down other services and provide additional beds for paediatric and medical patients who are most affected by flu outbreaks," he said.

The tragedy-struck Ho family had happier news yesterday with the birth of a baby, four days after their three-year-old daughter died of flu.

The baby came into the world yesterday morning at Tuen Mun Hospital, where Ho Po-yi died on Saturday. The child’s death sparked allegations by the family that doctors had been remiss in not admitting her earlier.

On what should have been a joyful occasion, the children’s father and grandfather were unsmiling as they went to the hospital yesterday, not even willing to disclose the sex of the new child, Mrs Ho’s fourth.

Also in the hospital is another daughter, Ho Yuen-yi, six, suffering from the same H3 flu strain that struck Po-yi.

Yuen-yi was confirmed yesterday to be ill with the H3N2 substrain, known as Brisbane flu after the Australian city where it first emerged, but the exact substrain that infected her sister had not been established last night.

Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok said the authority was very concerned by the sisters’ case. Dr Chow said he hoped the coroner’s court would be able to provide a clear account of the medical procedures involved and what had happened. He said the case was rare, as flu did not normally kill so quickly.

Po-yi died on Saturday afternoon after she was admitted to the hospital, a few hours after being sent home from the emergency room with a high fever.

Her sister, under treatment with the flu drug Tamiflu, is also having psychological counselling to help her deal with the tragedy.

"Yuen-yi is now stable, and she has started to eat again," grandfather Ho Kwai-ming said.

"Doctors say she may be discharged within two days. We are glad."

He did not answer when asked whether Yuen-yi had taken in the news of the death of her sister, but said he was still angry with the hospital. Mr Ho wondered whether mistakes had been made.