After Bulgaria and Hungary confronted extensive flu epidemics, the number of cases begun to grow in Romania as well. The Cantacuzino Institute announces that most of the cases until now were recorded in Bucharest, where 18 patients were diagnosed with flu. Other cases were confirmed in the counties of Iasi, Buzau, Constanta, Brasov and Sibiu. Doctors say that all cases will be handled with maximum attentions, patients being hospitalized. Several hospitals even instated quarantine.