Photo taken on May 23, 2009 shows the hospital where the A/H1N1 influenza patient is hospitalized in Fuzhou, capital city of east China's Fujian Province. The patient is a two-year-old girl coming from the United States. [Xinhua]

China's Health Ministry confirmed on Sunday that a two-year-old girl in eastern Fujian Province, who returned from the United States with her family via Hong Kong tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu.

The patient, the eighth confirmed case on the Chinese mainland so far, was currently isolated and received medical treatment in the municipal hospital in Fuzhou, provincial capital of Fujian, said the ministry.

(Xinhua News Agency May 24, 2009)