STARTING Wednesday, the Ministry of Health will no longer track the total number of Influenza A (H1N1) infections here, or the number of cases from affected countries.
That information has been removed from the ministry's flu website,
http://www.h1n1.gov.sg.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday announced that countries were no longer required to report all their confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths.
Instead, the ministry is tracking the proportion of H1N1 infections among all tested flu cases here.
As of this week, 13 per cent of patients with flu-like symptoms were infected with H1N1.
These biosurveillance statistics will be updated weekly.
The ministry is also tracking the number of H1N1 patients who have been hospitalised with more severe symptoms.
As of Tuesday, 85 such at-risk patients were in hospitals, including one man in intensive care.
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