Riyadh, June 26: The Ministry of Health announced Thursday that five new cases of swine flu had been registered in the previous 24 hours in the Kingdom.
The new cases were detected in a 56-year-old Filipina nurse in Al-Baha, two Filipina nurses aged 54 and 37 in Riyadh, a Saudi nurse aged 24 in Riyadh, and a four-year-old Albanian girl, also in the capital.
The new instances of the virus bring the total number of confirmed cases in the Kingdom to 53.
Meanwhile, informed sources told Okaz that symptoms of swine flu have been found in a housemaid in Al-Jouf. Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Sudairi Hospital in Sakaka evacuated all the patients and visitors from the building, the source said.
–Agencies–