BELGRADE, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Five new cases of the A/H1N1 flu have been confirmed in Serbia, bringing the total to 10, the Serbian official news agency Tanjug reported on Sunday.

    "Among those five new cases, two are in Belgrade, one in Nis and two come from a single family in Novi Sad," Predrag Kon, epidemiologist of the Belgrade Public Health Institute, was quoted as saying.

    Kon said that one of the two infected persons in Belgrade had been in contact with the patient from Montenegro.

    He said that four of the five new cases are patients who had arrived from abroad, while one patient was infected through a contact with another patient.

    The first case of the H1N1 flu in Serbia was confirmed in Belgrade on Wednesday and the patient is a 29-year-old male who returned from Argentina recently. The second infected patient is a girl from Sombor in northern Serbia. Three more cases of the H1N1 flu were confirmed on Friday.

    The Serbian Health Ministry has released contact telephone numbers of all on-duty epidemiologists in Serbia. Besides, all institutes of public health in the Balkan country are open to direct communication with citizens, the ministry said.

    The World Health Organization has recently declared an A/H1N1 pandemic -- the first flu pandemic in 41 years.

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