Two swine flu related deaths reported in three days

The H1N1 swine flu virus claimed two lives over the last three days, bringing the number of deaths in the Czech Republic in which the illness was a factor to ten. A hospital in the eastern town of Opava announced Monday that a 21-year-old girl had died at the weekend after a chronic illness from which she suffered was compounded by swine flu. In the town of Jičín, to the north-east of Prague, a 30-year-old man died on Monday of heart failure due to complications from pneumonia and the H1N1 virus.