A second person, recently arrived in Russia from the Dominican Republic, has been diagnosed with swine flu, the country`s chief doctor said on Monday.

Gennady Onishchenko said the man from the Kaluga Region had contracted the virus while on holiday in the Dominican Republic`s resort of Punta Cana on May 7-18.

"He and his wife are under medical observation and at the current time are in an infectious disease unit in a Kaluga hospital," Onishchenko said, adding that tests on the man`s wife and four other members of the household had come back negative.

The man is reported to be in a "stable condition" Oninshchenko said, and added that the case proved that the measures introduced by the government were working,

Russia`s Health Ministry said the first case of human swine flu had been diagnosed in Moscow in a man recently returned from a trip to the U.S.

According to the World Health Organization`s latest update, a total of 12,022 people in 43 countries worldwide have been officially diagnosed with the A/H1N1 swine flue virus, with 86 deaths.
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