The Centre for Health Protection has been informed of four additional human H7N9 cases; two in Guangzhou, one in Anhui and one in Hunan.
The two Guangzhou patients are a four-year-old girl and a 79-year-old man. The Anhui case involves a 14-year-old girl, and the Hunan case involves a 46-year-old man. All are in hospital.
These bring the total of confirmed human cases of the disease on the Mainland to 344.