Japan confirmed 27 more human cases of HlNl influenza on Sunday, bringing the country's total to 32 and leading to school closures in affected areas.
In Beijing, officials confirmed the third case in mainland China on Saturday. Hong Kong also confirmed its third case on Sunday.
An assistant principal at a New York City public school died of complications from swine flu in an intensive care unit of a Queens hospital on Sunday night, the first death in New York State of the flu strain that has swept across much of the world since it was first identified in April.
Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal of Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens, died Sunday.
World governments failed to reach a final deal on the sharing of virus research material and vaccines in case of a global flu pandemic at a weekend meeting of the World Health Organisation.
A day after India confirmed its first case of A/H1N1 influenza virus, government tightened the screening process of passengers from flu affected countries. Authorities had on Saturday confirmed that a 23-year-old IT student in Hyderabad had tested positive of carrying the virus.
On Sunday authorities also admitted a mother-son duo in Chennai with suspected symptoms of the disease.
Health authorities said a 23-year-old man, an IT student who flew from New York to Hyderabad via Dubai and New Delhi, tested positive for the virus
India has recorded its first positive case of H1N1 influenza virus (earlier referred as swine flu), giving further evidence that the disease is further spreading.
Health ministry officials said they are treating it as a
