The Malaysian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday 20 new patients of A/H1N1 flu, which increased the total cases to 164 in the country.

Among the new cases, the ministry said that 16 were imported and four were locally transmitted.

The ministry also said that the latest cases involved 13 Malaysians and seven foreigners, including a Vietnamese, a German, an Australia, a Japanese, an American and two Indonesians.

(Xinhua News Agency July 1, 2009)