China reports 1st swine flu death: woman in Tibet

An 18-year-old woman in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa has become China's first swine flu fatality, the
Health Ministry and a state news agency said Tuesday.
A patient died Sunday in Tibet, the Health Ministry said
on its Web site. «This is China's first fatal case of the
H1N1 flu,» the ministry statement said, according to AP.
It gave no other details but the Xinhua News Agency said
the patient was an 18-year-old woman who died at a hospital
in Maizhokunggar County, part of Lhasa.
China's mainland had 21,453 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu as
of Tuesday and about 78.7 percent of the patients had
recovered, the Health Ministry said.