The number of A/H1N1 positively infected people in Indonesia has reached 495, with 276 males and 210 females, the private news portal bisnis.com quoted an official as saying on Friday.

According to the Health Ministry's data, Indonesia had new cases of 16 people consisting of 10 males and six females as of Thursday night.

They are all Indonesians. Two of them had a traveling history to Malaysia before getting sick, two had unclear histories while 12 others did not have overseas traveling history.

"So far, as of July 31 we have 495 A/H1N1 infected patients," said Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry's director general for controlling disease and environment treatment.

Tjandra said that his ministry was ready for prevention efforts by installing thermal scanners and health alert cards, tightening surveillance and preparing referred hospitals, among others.

The ministry also conducted community surveillance, meaning that people who have rather-severe flu should report to public health centers while those who have severe flu should go to hospitals.

Source: Xinhua