BANGKOK, Feb 15 (TNA) – Thailand on Monday confirmed five more deaths related to Influenza Type A(H1N1), raising the country’s death tally  to 206, said Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit in the ministry’s weekly report.

Three deaths were identified as a four-year-old boy with a history of malnutrition in the northern province of Nan and a 23-year-old pregnant woman in Bangkok who experienced chronic heart disease. The third was a woman aged 30 with obesity in the northeastern province of Surin.

The other two deaths in the northern province of Chiang Mai included a nine-year-old boy and a 62-year-old woman with chronic heart disease and renal failure.

Regarding the A(H1N1) vaccination programme, Mr Jurin said that 235,078 high risk persons received flu shots, which was less than 40 per cent of the targeted number of two million recipients.

The Ministry of Public Health began its free vaccination programme on January 11 to protect the public against Influenza A(H1N1) by administering about two million injections to people in five high-risk groups at state and private hospitals nationwide. (TNA)