MEXICO CITY, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Saturday that until Friday night there have been 1,105 tests to detect the influenza A/H1N1, among which 443 in the country were positive.
People wear surgical masks in Mexico city, May 3, 2009. Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Saturday that until Friday night there have been 1,105 tests to detect the influenza A/H1N1, among which 443 in the country were positive.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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Out of the positive cases 427 patients are alive,
while 16 died. Among the total of the deaths, 12 were women.
Cordova said that the suspicious deathly cases
related to flu, known last week, eight were discarded because they were negative
at the lab tests and 135 were positive but of seasonal flu.
Cordova said that the health caravans have made
12,500 preventive actions out of a total of 39,011 in three days. In that period
13 people were told to go to hospitals in Mexico City, adding that on Saturday
there were 600 more tests to patients with human flu symptoms.
Cordova denied that there are not enough treatments
and said that his ministry has sent 200,000 dosages to the States of Mexico and
200,000 to health institutes in the city. He said that the problem is with the
medicine distribution.
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