JAKARTA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has confirmed 22 new cases infected by A/H1N1 virus, putting the total number of confirmed cases to 930 in the country, a Health Ministry official said here Wednesday.

    Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the ministry, Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said that the virus spread to 24 out of 33 provinces in Indonesia.

    "The cumulative number of people infected by swine flu reaches 930," he said in a statement issued Wednesday evening.

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the disease has killed over 1,000 people out of more than 162,000 cases in 168countries. In Indonesia four were killed by the virus so far.

    Experts feared that the avian influenza sub-type A/H1N1 virus could combine with the H5N1 virus, which have already existed in the country, and create a new type of virus with the speed of spread similar to the A/H1N1 and the severity equal to the H5N1 virus.

    Indonesia was hardest hit by H5N1 virus with fatality of more than 100 people.

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