A total of 97,462 people in Macao have been inoculated with the A/H1N1 vaccines so far, according to the figures released on Monday by Macao's Health Bureau.

Some 1,402 people were inoculated with the vaccines on Monday alone, which was initiated by the Bureau in late November last year, according to the Health Bureau.

Meanwhile, the bureau also recorded one newly confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu on Monday, bringing the total number of such cases to 3, 566 since June 18 last year.

Previously, the government of the Macao Special Administrative Region has announced that it has ordered some 700, 000 doses of A/ H1N1 vaccines, and local medical staff, children, old people and patients with chronic disease were among the group of local people who were firstly inoculated with these vaccines.

(Xinhua News Agency January 26, 2010)