Egypt reported on Wednesday two more cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 82, according to the Ministry of Health.

One of the two cases was a 23-year-old British man who just came from Britain, the other was a 16-year-old Egyptian student who came from the United States, Health Ministry Spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine said in a statement.

The spokesman said that the health condition of the new cases is stable after proper treatment, adding that about 70 of the country's total 82 cases have recovered.

Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case on June 2, who was a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

Egypt, the most populous Arab country that was hit hard by the fatal bird flu in 2006, decided in late April to cull all pigs in the country to stem the highly infectious flu A/H1N1.

So far the new flu virus has caused more than 94,000 laboratory-confirmed infections in some 136 countries and regions, with 429 deaths, according to latest figures provided by the World Health Organization, which on June 11 formally announced the first pandemic in the 21st century.

(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2009)