A European health agency said on Sunday that 67 new A/H1N1 flu cases were reported in European countries within the last 24 hours.

Of the new cases, 29 were confirmed in Portugal, nine each in the Czech Republic and Luxembourg, eight each in Slovenia and Hungary, and four in Poland, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its daily situation report.

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 26,513, with 1,538 cases in Spain and 11,864 in Britain, 719 in France and 6,062 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 3, 2009)