The Vietnamese Ministry of Health confirmed two more A/H1N1 cases on Monday, raising the total number of people found positive to the virus to three, Vietnam News Agency reported on Monday.

The two patients are a mother and a child, coming back from the United States and were found positive with A/H1N1 virus in Ho Chi Minh City, said the Ministry of Health.

These two people are not among the 189 passengers on the same flight with the first person found positive with the virus in Vietnam, the national news agency reported.

The health ministry confirmed the country's first A/H1N1 case on Sunday. Vietnam is the 54th country to report A/H1N1 case.

(Xinhua News Agency June 1, 2009)