BANGKOK, July 3 (TNA) – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health reported
154 new Influenza A(H1N1) cases on Friday, according to Deputy Public
Health Minister Manit Nopamornbodhi.
Specialists were to meet
on Friday to review preventive measures following five fatalities being
recorded in Thailand, the minister said.
The new infections reported Friday raised the country’s total number of persons diagnosed with H1N1 to 1,760.
Twenty
of the new flu patients remain in hospital. Of this number, one patient
in Chonburi was being closely monitored as the patient’s condition is
worrying.
The public health ministry was due to convene a
meeting of specialists from state hospitals Friday afternoon to review
treatment of new flu patients and assess at-risk groups.
Representatives
from a cleaning company will also attend the meeting to share
information after a cleaner died from the new virus. Janitorial workers
are now categorised in a risk group. (TNA)
