BANGKOK, June 11 — Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has recorded new 30 Influenza A (H1N1) cases including 21 cases reported in the eastern resort town of Pattaya and four students at a Bangkok school, raising the total cases detected in Thailand to 46, Thailand News Agency (TNA) reported today.
In Vietnam, the health ministry has confirmed that there have been 22 cases to date, with the latest recorded yesterday.
Four students at a school in Bangkok have been confirmed as having contracted the H1N1 virus so far after an 11-year-old boy from that school was recorded as the 16th flu patient yesterday.
Another 21 new cases detected in Pattaya included 17 workers at an entertainment venue in Pattaya who had contact with two Taiwanese tourists, and four doctors and nurses, offering medical treatment to the two tourists, according to Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai.
Two Taiwanese tourists were diagnosed as having contracted the H1N1 virus when they returned home from a trip in Pattaya. The other five new cases, confirmed by the lab tests, are suspected cases still under surveillance of the public health ministry, Witthaya said.
Among five cases being monitored are one Englishman, one Thai man returning from Singapore, and one Thai woman returning from the United States.
The two other cases are a man who has not been abroad but went to Suvarnabhumi airport to pick up his son, who was returning from the US, and a woman whose son was earlier reported as the 16th H1N1 case.
The public health minister assured the public not to panic despite the increasing number of patients.
Witthaya said the virus is not virulent and the illness can be completely cured if properly treated. However, everyone must help prevent the spread of the disease, he said.
He advised flu patients to stay home and to wear face masks to prevent spreading the disease to other people.
Meanwhile, in Vietnam, a total of 22 cases of influenza A(H1N1) flu were confirmed as at 11am today. The cases were said to be from Ho Chi Minh City, southern Dong Nai province and Hanoi, according to Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu.
Of the total, five patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
The same day, Minister Trieu inspected treatment activities at the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases where Hanoi’s first infected case is being hospitalised.
The 27-year-old man on June 10 tested positive for the A(H1N1) flu virus after travelling to the United States for 11 days. All his family members have tested negative to the virus. – Bernama
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