The tally of confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases on the Chinese mainland has risen to 34 as Beijing announced on Monday afternoon one more person in the city was tested to have contracted the virus.

No more details are available at this time about the latest confirmed flu case, the ninth of the kind in Beijing.

Health authorities in east China's Fujian Province said on Monday a man who was confirmed to have contracted A/H1N1 flu virus four days ago recovered and was discharged from a local hospital.

Xie Zhendong, 25, has had normal temperature for 106 hours. Other flu symptoms, such as having a running nose and coughing, have abated, qualifying Xie's clean bill of health in accordance with standards drafted by the Chinese Ministry of Health for discharging A/H1N1 flu patients from hospitals, said Fujian Provincial Health Department.

Before Xie was discharged from Fuzhou Respiratory Diseases Hospital Monday, the Fujian Provincial Disease Control and Prevention Center conducted two separate tests over samples obtained from the man in the past two days. Both tests proved negative for A/H1N1 flu.

Xie, who was a caterer in the United States, returned to China on a flight from New York May 24, and reached Changle International Airport in Fuzhou, the provincial capital of Fujian, the next day. He developed symptoms including coughing and a sore throat before he saw medical doctors with Fuzhou No. 2 Hospital May 26. He was transferred to Fuzhou Respiratory Diseases Hospital and was confirmed to have contracted A/H1N1 flu May 28, said Lin Zhongxuan, deputy chief of Fuzhou Respiratory Diseases Hospital.

Xie had been treated for the swine flu with a medication consisting Tamiflu and other medicines, said Lin.

Of the country's 34 confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases, four were in Fujian, a province on southeast China coast, and Xie was the second of the four. At present, only two patients are being treated for the swine flu in local hospitals in Fujian, according to Lin.

According to the World Health Organization, 53 countries had officially reported 15,510 cases of A/H1N1 infection, including 99 deaths, as of Friday.

(Xinhua News Agency June 1, 2009)