SANTIAGO, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chilean authorities confirmed on Friday four new deaths due to A/H1N1 flu, raising the death toll in the country to 12.

    The authorities said that two patients were from Nuble province, one from Valdivia and one from Osorio.

    The victims from Nuble, southern Chile, were a 48-year-old female patient and a 47-year-old male, said the authorities.

    The female patient was treated with anti-viral drug Oseltamivir from June 15, but she was taken to the hospital due to complications on June 19.

    The male patient did not seek medical consultation on time. When he went to the health center, he was hospitalized and received treatment.

    Nuble's health official Ivan Paul Espinoza said that most of the cases showed light symptoms.

    The other death was a male patient of 41 years old from Valdivia, 800 km south to Santiago, the capital of Chile.

    The seven-year-old girl in Osorio is the first one who did not have symptoms and the first child who died in the country.

Special Report:  World Tackles A/H1N1 Flu