H1N1 toll leaps past 52,000, 231 dead: WHO

Published Monday, June 22, 2009

By AFP

The H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, has infected more than 52,000 people in 100 countries and territories and killed 231 people since late March, the World Health Organisation reported on Monday.

There have been an extra 7,873 cases and 51 more deaths since the last toll released by the UN health agency on Friday.

The United States led a group of countries that have seen dramatic increases in cases of the H1N1 virus.

There were an extra 3,594 cases to a total of 21,449; 87 deaths, in the United States, 1,190 more cases in Chile (4,315), where there have been four deaths and 805 extra cases in Canada, with 5,710 infections, including 13 deaths.

Britain remains the worst-hit country in Europe. It has recorded 754 extra cases taking its total to 2,506, including one death.

In Australia there are 237 extra cases at 2,436, with one death. In Japan there are 160 more cases at 850.

Only five cases have been detected in the UAE.

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