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Mainland H1N1 flu cases approach 4,000
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-02 23:27 BEIJING: The Chinese mainland confirmed 224 new cases of the A(H1N1) influenza in the 48 hours ending 3 p.m. Wednesday, bringing total infections to 3,981, the Ministry of Health said. Among the newly confirmed case, 199 were "imported cases" and the remaining 25 were infected on the Chinese mainland, said the ministry. Nearly 3,400 of the infected have recovered, the ministry said, adding that no fatal case has so far been reported.
So far, vaccines for the A(H1N1) flu virus produced by two Chinese pharmaceutical companies, Sinovac and Hualan Biological Engineering Inc., have passed expert evaluation organized by the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). Both companies are hopeful of getting production licenses for their drugs this week, if given the green lights by the SFDA. Health Minister Chen Zhu said in August that China would be able to produce enough A(H1N1) flu vaccine for 65 million people by the end of the year. The Chinese mainland reported its first critical case of the A(H1N1) flu on August 13. The case involved a 17-year-old high school student in the southern province of Guangdong who had been in a coma for about a week at the time. He was later diagnosed with a rare genetic disease named Brugada Syndrome, which was believed to have led to his critical condition, his doctors said. On July 1, an infected patient in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, reportedly died of electrocution in a ward lavatory. The death was thought to have been caused by a faulty electrical circuit. |
