A European health agency said Wednesday that 1,016 new A/H1N1 flu cases were reported in European countries within the last 24 hours.

Of the new cases, 786 were confirmed in Germany, 136 in Norway, 26 in Switzerland, 25 in Austria, 19 in Republic Czech, six in Slovenia, five in Slovakia, four in Romania, two respectively in Poland and Lithuania, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its daily situation report.

A girl wearing a face mask takes a photograph along Whitehall in London, July 30, 2009. The number of H1N1 flu cases in England might be levelling out, the Health Protection Agency said on Thursday as it reported an estimated 110,000 new infections in the week ending July 26. In the prior week, an estimated 100,000 new cases of swine flu were recorded in England -- a big jump on previous infection figures. [Xinhua/Reuters]

 The total number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries rose to 28,908, with 1,538 cases in Spain and 11,912 in Britain, 719 in France and 7,963 in Germany, the ECDC said.

The ECDC publishes a daily situation report about A/H1N1 flu cases in the EU and EFTA countries based on official information from these countries.

(Xinhua News Agency August 6, 2009)