Uruguayan Public Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday 5 new cases of influenza A/H1N1, raising the infection toll in the country to 32.

The authorities said that one of the new patients is from Maldonado department in southeast of the country, while the other four are from the capital Montevideo.

Meanwhile, a school in Montevideo was suspended on Wednesday after five students were found positive of the A/H1N1 virus.

Uruguay reported its first A/H1N1 flu cases on May 27 while a male patient of 24 years old and a female patient of 25 years old who have traveled to Argentina were found positive of the virus.

(Xinhua News Agency June 11, 2009)