Influenza A/H1N1 continued to spread on Sunday and Monday with more confirmed cases reported worldwide.

Chilean health authorities confirmed on Sunday the nation's second death from the new A/H1N1 flu in a man of 49. The man died on Wednesday, and medical tests confirmed the diagnosis on Saturday night.

Five more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed in Nicaragua, raising the total number of infected cases in the country to 26, its Health Ministry announced.

Cuba on the day reported its fifth confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu in a 62-year-old Canadian woman who arrived Tuesday last week.

Uruguayan health authorities reported four new A/H1N1 influenza cases, bringing the total in the country to 22.

Three of them are students from private colleges in Montevideo and the other is a woman who recently returned from the United States and lives in the western Uruguayan province of Rio Negro.

The Dominican Republic's Health Ministry on Sunday reported 16 new cases of A/H1N1 flu, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 60.

There are a total of about 400 samples awaiting testing in a special laboratory, the Ministry said in a statement.

In Hondura, 24 new cases of the A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country's total to 56 with 100 more cases to be confirmed.

Colombia confirmed one new A/H1N1 flu case, raising the total number of infected cases in the country to 25.

The boy, from Yopal, capital city of the central Casanare province, has had close contact with a confirmed patient.

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its daily report on Sunday that 26 new A/H1N1 flu cases were discovered in European countries within the last 24 hours.

The new cases were distributed in Germany, Netherlands, Austria, France and Denmark, it said.

Many countries in Asia also reported more infections. South Korea's health authorities on Monday confirmed one more case of Influenza A/H1N1, raising the number of confirmed cases to 48 in the country.

According to the nation's Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, a 28-year-old man, recently back from his business trip to New York on Sunday, showed flu-like symptoms, and, accordingly, was quarantined at a state-designated hospital.

With four more cases reported in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan's tally of A/H1N1 flu infections have amounted to 424, local media reported Sunday.

The four patients - three middle school boys and one primary school boy - tested positive for the new flu after having run fevers, according to officials from the Fukuoka municipal government.

Eight more A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed on the Chinese mainland Sunday, bringing the total number to 80.

Three new cases were reported in Beijing, including a 12-year-old Chinese boy and two foreigners, the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said.

The boy studied in the United States and returned to China from Orlando Saturday, the bureau said.

Meanwhile, five people were tested positive for the A/H1N1 influenza virus in Hong Kong on Sunday, taking the number of confirmed cases of the disease in the city to 38, said local health authorities.

Vietnamese authority updated the number of its A/H1N1 flu patients to 13 on Sunday evening, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, the mother and younger sister of the 11th case has been confirmed to be infected with the virus.

The family returned to Vietnam from the United States on June 6. They were now isolated and treated at the Nhi Dong No. 1 Hospital.

Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on Sunday reported a ninth case of influenza A/H1N1 infection in the country.

Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said the latest patient was a 29-year-old businessman who returned from the United States on Thursday.

According to the latest update by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, 21,940 cases of A/H1N1 infection have been confirmed in 69 countries, including 125 deaths.

(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2009)