Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Two more people have died of the A/H1N1 flu in Egypt bringing the country’s death toll to 31.
A 29-year-old woman died of the virus in Gharbiya Governorate, 80 km north of Cairo. She was a nurse at a local health centre, and soon suffered from severe dyspnea (symptom of a serious disease of the airway, lungs, or heart) before succumbing on Sunday, according to witnesses quoted by state news agency, MENA, said on Monday.
The second incident was a 54-year-old woman who briefly suffered from the flu and died on Sunday night in Giza Governorate, southwest of Cairo.
Health Ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine said that “the situation was getting serious and deserves urgent intervention.”
About 3,855 cases of the swine flu have been reported across Egypt, according to the Ministry of Health.
Egypt’s first A/H1N1 death case was confirmed in July, of a 28-year-old woman who had returned from Saudi Arabia after making Umrah (pilgrimage to Mecca at any time of the year.)
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