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Indonesia records 15 H1N1 new cases

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-07-18 20:02

JAKARTA: Indonesia has confirmed 15 people positively infected by swine flu virus, putting the total cases in the country to 157, Health Ministry said in a statement here Saturday.

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Of the new cases, two of them are foreigners and the rest are Indonesian citizens. Four of them have historical journey to Malaysia and Australia, Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the ministry Tjandra Yoga Aditama said in the statement

Four of the 15 are males and 11 are females aged from 4 to 49 years old, the director said. They were treated at hospitals in Jakarta, Bandung of West Java, Bali, Medan of North Sumatra and  Surabaya of East Java, he said.

The virus has spread among humans in Indonesia, but so far there has been no confirmation of death from the disease in the country, as the flu virus only has fatality rate of 0.4 percent.