CHITA, October 19 (RIA Novosti) - The number of confirmed swine flu cases in Russia's Trans-Baikal Region has grown from 59 to 91 over the weekend, Russian consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Monday.
The first cases of H1N1 virus in the region were registered on October 3. Several schools have been closed and put under quarantine in the regional capital, Chita.
"There are 41 children among the total of confirmed cases including 32 pupils," the statement said, adding that 11 people with confirmed virus had recently returned from China.
As of Monday, there have been at least 902 confirmed cases of swine flu in Russia, with no reported deaths. Russia's top doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, said on Friday that 562 of Russia's reported cases of the virus involved people who had become infected whilst traveling abroad.
According to the World Health Organization, as of October 11 there had been more than 399,000 laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza throughout the world, with over 4,735 deaths.
