MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 10,243 people in 41 countries worldwide have been officially diagnosed with the A/H1N1 virus as of 06:00 GMT Wednesday, with 80 deaths, the World Health Organization said in its daily report.

The number of laboratory-confirmed cases rose by 413, and one person died in the previous 24 hours.

New cases have been registered in the United States (346), Japan (51), Panama (6), Spain (4), Peru (1), Poland (1) Chile (1), Colombia (1), France (1). Greece, with one registered case, became the 41st country to report an infection.

Human A/H1N1 infections have been officially confirmed in the following countries:

United States - 5,469 cases, six deaths

Mexico - 3,648 cases, 72 deaths

Canada - 496 cases, one death

Costa Rica - nine cases, one death

Japan - 159 cases

Spain - 103 cases

United Kingdom - 102 cases

Panama - 59 cases

France - 15 cases

Germany - 14 cases

Colombia - 12 cases

Italy - nine cases

New Zealand - eight cases

Brazil - eight cases

Israel - seven cases

China - seven cases

El Salvador - six cases

Belgium - five cases

Chile - five cases

The Netherlands, Cuba, South Korea, Guatemala, Peru and Sweden have each reported three officially confirmed cases of the human A/H1N1 infection.

Norway, Finland, Malaysia, Poland and Thailand have reported two cases each.

Single cases have been detected in Argentina, Australia, Greece, India, Switzerland, Turkey, Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Portugal and Ecuador.