Costa Rican Health Ministry reported on Wednesday 11 new cases of influenza A/H1N1 flu, raising the infection toll in the country to 104.

The 11 new cases were located in the central zone of the country, so the virus circulation is kept at San Jose, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia and Guanacaste provinces, while Puntarenas and Limon have nor registered any case.

The authorities said that there are 10 new possible cases, while in total they have detected 2,031 possible cases, from them 1,803 were discarded and 114 are being tested at the labs of the Costa Rican Institute of Nutrition and Health Investigation and Teaching (Inciensa).

Costa Rica was the fourth country in the world to have reported a H1N1 death, which to the moment has been the only case in the country.

(Xinhua News Agency June 11, 2009)