Indonesian hospitals are now treating 52 people who are positively infected A/H1N1 virus, including 3 foreigners, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said on Thursday.

The health minister told a press conference here that among the 52 patients, there are cases of human-to-human virus transmission.

"We learned that 12 of those patients were resulted from human to human virus transmission within a month," she was quoted by the detik.com as saying.

To avoid the possibility from being infected by the A H1N1 virus, the health minister called on the public to exercise healthy and clean living.

Siti said that A/H1N1 flu is a curable disease. She, however, said that government would continue screening people who had just arrived from traveling abroad.

Government will also use the Tamiflu tablet to heal A/H1N1 patients in the country, she added.

(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2009)