YANGON, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Audience with cough and running nose symptoms are prohibited for admittance in cinemas in Myanmar as part of the authorities' measures to prevent human flu infection, sources with the health department said on Tuesday.

    Entrance tickets will not be sold to audience with such symptoms, a cinema manager in Yangon said.

    Public posters on such prohibition have been set up in some cinemas in the former capital to warn people of the ban.

    Meanwhile, the authorities continue to take preventive measures against the possible spread of the global human flu pandemic, advising all private clinics in the country to report or transfer all flu- suspected patients, who returned from abroad, to local state-run hospitals or health departments for increased surveillance.

    According to official reports, a total of 64 new influenza A/H1N1 cases have so far been confirmed in Myanmar since the outbreak of the disease in the world in April this year,

    Of the total, 62 patients have been discharged from the hospitals after recovering from the illness, the department said, adding that, the two remaining patients are under special medical treatment at hospital with their conditions improving.

    There is no flu death cases reported in the country.

    Myanmar reported the first case of new flu A/H1N1 in the country on June 27 with a 13-year-old girl who developed the symptoms after coming back home from Singapore a day earlier. 　

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