According to India’s health authorities, a 23-year-old man who had flown from New York to the southern city of Hyderabad was quarantined at the airport after showing symptoms of infection. Blood samples of this unknown man tested positive for influenza A/H1N1, said local doctors.

The same day, Turkish authorities also confirmed the first flu in the country, saying the deadly virus A/H1N1 was found in a man who had travelled to Istanbul from the US.

Malaysia also identified its second case of the H1N1 flu - a patient at a hospital in the northern state of Penang. The patient is a friend of Malaysia's first confirmed case, a 21-year-old student now being treated at a hospital in Selangor state. Both had recently returned from the US.