The Indonesian Health Ministry reported six more positive cases of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country's total cases to eight.

The Jakarta Post website quoted the Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari as saying on Sunday that there had been six new "imported" cases that happened to three Australians and three locals.

The ministry said that the three Australians were in the same plane with Indonesia's first A/H1N1 patient, who has recovered from the illness and left the hospital. But the three were still receiving medical treatments at Sanglah public hospital in Denpasar, Bali.

Two of the three locals once spent holidays in Singapore, while the other one came back from Australia. "They are now being treated at Sulianti Saroso public hospital in North Jakarta," Siti said.

She said that she had asked for all authorities in hospitals, laboratories, airports and seaports to increase their medical supply and prepare more staffers to anticipate more A/H1N1 cases.

"We also demand for all people, who come back from the pandemic countries, to report and examine themselves to the nearby hospitals should they feel the disease sympthoms," she said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 29, 2009)