A women in her fifties died over the weekend from illness related to the A/H1N1 flu, the second confirmed death linked to the virus, local media reported Sunday.
The woman, from the city's Queens borough, had an underlying health condition that made her more at risk from the disease, The New York Times reported, quoting Jessica Scaperotti, a spokeswoman at the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Scaperotti declined to provide any more details about the woman or tell where she was hospitalized.
An assistant principal at a Queens school, also in his fifties, was the city's first confirmed victim of the new strain of flu, which has sickened more than 10,000 people and killed over 80 others around the world. He died last week.
The number of people hospitalized with swine flu in the city since the outbreak of the flu in early April has risen to 94 on Sunday, up from 68 on Saturday and 57 on Friday, suggesting that the rate of infection and hospitalization might be increasing, the newspaper said.
It was not clear how many of those patients were currently hospitalized or how many were in critical condition.
On Friday, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center said it had a patient in critical condition with swine flu at its location in Morningside Heights.
"As we see more cases in the community we are going to see more severe illness and possibly death," the paper quoted Scaperotti as saying. "If you're sick right now with flu, you probably have H1N1."
Forty schools in the city have been closed as many students display flu-like symptoms. The majority of those schools, some of which have since reopened, are located in Queens, although the number of schools being closed is rising in the other four boroughs -- Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.
Source:Xinhua
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