A European health agency said on Wednesday that 729 new A/H1N1 flu cases were reported in European countries within the last 24 hours, Xinhua reported.
Of the new cases, 337 were confirmed in Germany, 257 in Portugal, 70 in Sweden, 41 in Switzerland, seven in Romania, six in Bulgaria, four in Finland, two each in Hungary and Poland, and one each in Slovenia, Slovakia and Estonia, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its daily situation report.
The total number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries rose to 40,156, with 1,538 cases in Spain and 12,903 in Britain, 1,125 in France and 12,830 in Germany, the ECDC said.
The ECDC publishes a daily situation report about A/H1N1 flu cases in the EU and EFTA countries based on official information from these countries.