The number of people infected with Influenza A/H1N1 reached 20 in Myanmar with the latest one being a three-year-seven-month-old child, according to the Health Department Saturday, Xinhua reported.
The new child patient, found infected with the new flu virus, returned from Malaysia by flight No. 8M-502 on Monday, and was brought to the Yangon Children's Hospital Thursday after he was found ill.
He was confirmed by the National Health Laboratory to have been infected with the virus.
Five family members of the patient are being kept under home quarantine, while a total of 116 passengers and 129 airport staff under surveillance.
Of Myanmar's 20 flu patients, 15 have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals, the sources claimed.
Myanmar reported the first case of new flu A/H1N1 in the country on June 27 with a 13-year-old girl, who developed the symptoms after coming back home from Singapore a day earlier.
The authorities continue to take preventive measures against the possible spread of the global human flu pandemic, advising all private clinics in the country to report or transfer all flu- suspected patients, who returned from abroad, to local state-run hospitals or health departments for increased surveillance.