Six new cases of Influenza A/H1N1 were reported on Sunday as two cases were reported from Kochi in Kerala while one each from Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Kolkata and Mumbai.

As per the Union Health Ministry, the case from Hyderabad was that of a 10-year-old boy, who had travelled from the US to Hyderabad transiting Frankfurt and Mumbai (AI 144) and reaching Hyderabad on June 25, 2009 (AI 140). He had himself reported at the identified health facility on June 26.

The one reported from Gurgaon was an indigenous case of the 12-year-old sister of another positive case reported on June 26, while that reported from Kolkata was a five-and-half-year-old girl who travelled from Bangkok by Thai Airways TG 313 reaching Kolkata on June 26. She was admitted in the isolation facility after she was found having flu symptoms.

The case reported from Mumbai was of a 45-year-old woman, mother of a patient reported on June 26. She also travelled from the US and reached Delhi on June 22 and then went to Mumbai by train, reaching there on June 26 and herself reported at identified health facility. Her contacts were being traced.

The indigenous positive case (66-year-old woman) at Delhi, covered in earlier reports, was now stable.

A woman and her son, who arrived in Kochi from the England with suspected symptoms of the virus, were tested positive. The duo was earlier quarantined at the Kochi international airport.

According to the health officials in Delhi, over 680 people have been tested so far, of which 97 were positive for the Influenza A (H1N1).