Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Saturday that until Friday night there have been 1,105 tests to detect the influenza A/H1N1, among which 443 in the country were positive.

Out of the positive cases 427 patients are alive, while 16 died. Among the total of the deaths, 12 were women.

Cordova said that the suspicious deathly cases related to flu, known last week, eight were discarded because they were negative at the lab tests and 135 were positive but of seasonal flu.

Cordova said that the health caravans have made 12,500 preventive actions out of a total of 39,011 in three days. In that period 13 people were told to go to hospitals in Mexico City, adding that on Saturday there were 600 more tests to patients with human flu symptoms.

Cordova denied that there are not enough treatments and said that his ministry has sent 200,000 dosages to the States of Mexico and 200,000 to health institutes in the city. He said that the problem is with the medicine distribution.

(Xinhua News Agency May 3, 2009)