The Costa Rican Health Ministry said on Tuesday that the country has had a total of 209 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu, with 30 new cases confirmed since the previous report.

Among the 30 newly-added cases, 20 were confirmed on Monday, said Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila.

So far the country has detected 2,904 possible flu cases, with 2,520 dismissed after lab tests and 162 still being tested.

Some 75 percent of the infections involved patients under age 30, while there were no obvious differences between patients of different genders, Avila said.

To date, only two out of the country's seven provinces, namely Limon and Puntarenas, have not reported any flu cases, said the minister.

(Xinhua News Agency June 24, 2009)