Singapore confirmed two more cases of Influenza A/ H1N1, bringing the number of total cases to 11, the country's Health Ministry said on Wednesday night.

One of the newly confirmed patients is a 33-year-old Singaporean female who was in New York from May 23 to 30, the other patient is an 18-year old American female visitor. Both patients were on Singapore Airlines SQ25 from New York via Frankfurt to Singapore. The flight arrived here on June 1.

The ministry said the two patients have been admitted to local hospital, and laboratory results confirmed their infection on Wednesday.

The ministry added in a statement that based on the analysis of the influenza A/ H1N1 situation in a number of countries, it is expanding the list of "affected areas" to include Melbourne and the State of Victoria in Australia, Kobe and Osaka in Japan and Chile, besides the United States, Canada and Mexico.

So far in Singapore, all the 11 cases are imported and have a travel history. The Health Ministry said that there is currently no evidence of community spread.

(Xinhua News Agency June 4, 2009)