Singapore has confirmed two more cases of Influenza A/H1N1, bringing the number of total cases here to 17, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The 16th case is a 40-year-old male foreigner from India who is working in Singapore. He went to Melbourne on May 31 on a business strip and returned to Singapore on Singapore Airlines SQ238 on June 6. He developed symptoms on June 7, and laboratory results confirmed his infection on Monday evening.

The 17th case is a 25-year-old Malaysian female who works as a cabin crew with Singapore Airlines. She was on holiday in Melbourne and developed symptoms on June 5 while she was there.

She returned to Singapore on Emirates EK 405 on June 7. She was not picked up by the thermal scanner as she did not have fever then. She consulted a local clinic on Monday morning for a non-flurelated medical condition, and was then referred to local hospital. Laboratory results confirmed her infection on Monday evening.

The Health Ministry said that the two patients have relatively mild symptoms and are in stable condition, adding that contact tracing has been initiated for these two confirmed cases.

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2009)