A total of 101,298 people in Macao have been inoculated with the A/H1N1 vaccines so far, according to the figures released on Thursday by Macao's Health Bureau.

Some 1,335 people were inoculated with the vaccines on Thursday alone, which was initiated by the Bureau in late November last year, according to the Health Bureau.

Meanwhile, the Bureau also reported two newly confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu on Thursday, bringing the total number of such cases to 3,573 since June 18 last year, of which two patients died.

Previously, the SAR government 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 29, 2010)