Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the two new cases include a 51-year-old female and a 21-year-old male, who both have travelled in the United States.
Duque said the two arrived in Manila on May 26 and they started to exhibit flu-like symptoms two days after.
He also announced that the DOH is currently monitoring 29 people for possible H1N1 infections. He said a total of 240 people have been monitored by the DOH since May 1, 16 of whom were found positive.
The health secretary said three of the 16 confirmed cases have already recovered from the viral infection and have been discharged.
Among the three are the first and the second confirmed cases in the Philippines -- a 10-year-old-girl and a 55-year-old woman. The third is one of the people who attended a wedding in Zambales province last May 17.
Five other guests at the wedding party, which was attended by an infected Taiwanese woman, have also been found positive for the dreaded virus.
The DOH said that based on the latest H1N1 report by the World Health Organization, there are 2,120 new cases and four deaths. The new deaths were from Canada, Mexico, and US. There are already a total of 15,510 cases and 99 deaths from 53 repotring countries.
The new countries that have confirmed H1N1 cases were Czech Republic, Dominican republic, Slovakia and Uruhuay.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/05/30/09/two-more-filipinos-infected-h1n1-virus
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