One new case of Influenza A/H1N1 were confirmed on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Macao to 13.

The newly confirmed case was imported, concerning a 39-year-oldPhilippine woman who works at a local casino, according to Macao's Health Bureau (SSM). The patient has been to Philippine between June 21 and 23, and she had contact with a patient infected with the virus.

The SSM said that the Philippine woman lived alone and did not went to the casino too often after she fell sick, as a result of which, there is no need to look for persons who had close contact with her.

So far, all but one of Macao's 13 confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 were imported. Local health authorities have raised the pandemic alert to the highest level 6.

(Xinhua News Agency June 26, 2009)