Swine flu cases estimated at around 100,000

The number of cases of swine flu in the Czech Republic is estimated by hygiene officials and doctors to be around 100,000. That figure has been calculated on the basis of the number of cases detected to date, the Czech News Agency reported. Swine flu epidemics have been declared in around one third of the country’s districts. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed swine flu deaths in the Czech Republic has risen to 11. The latest victims were a 39-year-old Prague man with heart disease and a 29-year-old man in Mělník. A 30-year-old man who died in Jičín on Monday is also suspected of having had the H1N1 virus.

Author: Ian Willoughby