Macao reported seven more confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 on Saturday, bringing the total number of such cases to 54.

The newly confirmed cases, all imported, included three local residents who have traveled abroad recently, a resident from the Chinese mainland and three Indonesians, according to the Health Bureau.

The Indonesian patients are mother, brother and sister of an Indonesian girl who has tested positive for the virus.

The family arrived in Macao on July 2 and checked into a local hotel Venetian Macao. The father of the girl did not show any flu symptom.

The Health Bureau has ordered the hotel to take stricter prevention measures.

Aside from the confirmed cases, another 125 people who had close contact with the patients were put under medical observation at their residences, according to the Health Bureau.

(Xinhua News Agency July 5, 2009)