Taiwan reports nearly 2,100 A/H1N1 cases a day

TAIPEI. August 26. KAZINFORM Taiwan is reporting nearly 2,100 A/H1N1 influenza cases a day, local disease control authorities said Wednesday; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

Nearly 40,000 people on the island, or about 0.17 percent of its total population, had been infected so far, but were mostly showing minor symptoms, health official Yang Chih-liang said.

Of 47 patients who had so far been in "serious condition", five had died and 10 were hospitalized, disease control director Kuo Hsu-sung said.

Most of the A/H1N1 flu patients would gradually recover if they took the necessary medicine and only a small number had been admitted to hospital, Kuo said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

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