Seven people had died of the A/H1N1 flu pandemic in Belarus, the country’s Health Ministry said on 5 November. Over the past two weeks, 19 people died of acute pneumonia in Belarus. Among them, seven were confirmed as having the A/H1N1 flu virus, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Valentina Kachan, Minsk’s chief sanitary official, as saying.
So far, 85 people had been confirmed as being infected with theA/H1N1 virus, 31 of whom were hospitalized, Kachan said. Kachan said necessary medicine had been provided to hospitals across the country. Up to 3 November, the death toll of the A/H1N1 flu had risen to 14in Russia, and the number of confirmed cases totaled 3,122, said a Russian deputy health minister.