Taiwan records 33rd deaths from H1N1

                    The Central Epidemics Command Center (CECC) reported yesterday (8 December 2009) that a 53-year-old woman with underlying health conditions has died from influenza A(H1N1), the 33rd person in Taiwan to die from the virus. The patient, a resident of Taipei County, had suffered from heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Chou Jih-haw, deputy director-general of the Centers for Disease Control said  that 85 percent of those people who died of H1N1 flu had been patients of chronic diseases.
                    The total number of H1NI flu infection cases since the outbreak began had reached 766 people. Most of these cases had recovered and been discharged. Meanwhile, 325 schools around the country remained closed because of H1N1 infections among the students.