South Korea's health authorities said Wednesday they have confirmed two more cases of Influenza A/H1N1, raising the number of infection here to 29.
According to the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, one American English teacher and a South Korean back from the United States recently were newly confirmed to have been infected with the H1N1 virus.
The English teacher was known to have worked at the same language institute where a total of 19 English teachers had been found to be infected until Tuesday.
Separately, the ministry said that it is examining two other suspected cases of the new flu.
According to the latest tally by the World Health Organization (WHO), 46 countries have officially reported 12,954 cases of Influenza A/H1N1 infection, including 92 deaths. All deaths have occurred in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Costa Rica.