BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- More A/H1N1 influenza cases were reported in China on Saturday.

    Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region confirmed on Saturday its first A/H1N1 case, according to local health authorities.

    The case was reported in Xinshi District in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, according to sources with the regional Public Health Department. It has been confirmed by China's Ministry of Health.

A patient infected with Influenza A/H1N1 virus receives medical treatment at Xinjiang Infectious Disease Hospital in Urumqi, capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 5, 2009.(Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    The patient is in stable condition and receiving medical treatment in the Xinjiang Infectious Disease Hospital.

    In the eastern Shandong Province, nine confirmed flu cases were reported in Wangcun Middle School in Jimo City. The patients, all students of the school, are in stable condition, sources with Shandong Provincial Public Health Department said.

People who have close contact with patients infected with influenza A/H1N1 virus wait for examinations at an infectious disease hospital in Tai'an, east China's Shandong Province, on Sept. 5, 2009. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    Nineteen students have been infected with the flu at a secondary school in Huizhou City, southern Guangdong Province, a spokesman with the Huizhou Municipal Health Bureau said.

    "The first flu patient at the Huizhou Agricultural School, a boy student, is being quarantined at home," the spokesman said. "He has no fever or other flu symptoms now and the people who have close contact with him are in good physical condition."

    He said the other 18 students are being quarantined and treated in hospital, and only three of them show fever symptom.

    In Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui Province, another four students at the Anhui Institute of International Business were confirmed as having contracted A/H1N1 flu, the provincial health department said in a statement.

    "They are being quarantined and treated at the Hefei Municipal Hospital of Infectious Disease," the statement said.

    A/H1N1 flu outbreaks have also been reported in schools in different regions, such as provinces of Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Hunan, and Jiangsu as well as the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

    The Chinese mainland has reported 4,415 cases of A/H1N1 flu, of which 3,577 have recovered, the Health Ministry said Friday evening, adding the flu has so far caused no deaths on the mainland.

    Globally, the disease has killed about 2,000 people and infected more than 180,000. It has spread to more than 170 countries.

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