Five new Influenza A (H1N1) cases were found in Macao, taking the total number of such cases to 154.

The five patients, three female and two males, were aged between four and 16.

Two of the confirmed patients had visited Hong Kong for exchanges with five other classmates last week, three of which had been confirmed to have the virus yesterday.

To date Macao had reported 154 Influenza A (H1N1) cases, with 13 patients receiving treatment. Seven patients had recovered and were discharged from hospital today, taking the total number of discharged patients to 120.

Macao’s pandemic alert remained at Level VI, Blue, which indicated that there were no fatal cases and the spread of the virus was moderate.