SOME 1799 people have died in the swine flu pandemic since the new virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation has said.
The latest global toll was released by the WHO on its website today. The toll was higher than the 1462 deaths reported by the UN health agency just over a week ago.
Ghana, Tuvalu and Zambia were the latest countries to report cases for the first time, the WHO said. Pandemic influenza A(H1N1) has now spread to more than 170 countries.
The largest toll has been recorded in North and South America, with 1579 deaths, followed by the WHO's South East Asian region with 106 deaths and 53 in Europe.
In all, 182,166 laboratory confirmed swine flu infections have been reported to the global health watchdog.
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