Twenty more people were found to have contracted the A/H1N1 flu in Hong Kong on Monday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to 973.

"There had been 20 newly confirmed cases of A/H1N1 in the 24 hours to 2:30 pm today," a spokesperson for the HKSAR government's Health Department said.

The new cases involve nine males and 11 females, aged between seven months and 52 years, the spokesperson said.

(Xinhua News Agency July 7, 2009)