MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Almost 100 people have been confirmed as suffering from swine flu in Russia since October 11, the country's top doctor said on Thursday.

"As of October 15, 807 cases of A/H1N1 have been registered in our country," Gennady Onishchenko said, adding that in 562 cases the people had become infected whilst travelling abroad.

On October 11, there were 709 confirmed cases of swine flu in Russia. No one has died in Russia of the virus.

A number of schools have been temporarily closed in the country over swine flu fears.

According to the latest report from the World Health Organization, 340,000 cases of swine flu have been confirmed throughout the world and 4,100 people have died from the virus as of September 27.