XINING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- China has reported its second death of A/H1N1 influenza on Friday, according to a Health Ministry statement on its website.

    A 43-year-old woman, in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, died of A/H1N1 influenza at about 2:41 p.m. Friday at the provincial contagious disease hospital, local health authorities said.

    She was hospitalized on Tuesday for fever, coughing and sore throat, and became a confirmed case on Thursday, said Ma Rucun, director of the hospital.

    Qinghai had reported 791 cases of A/H1N1 influenza as of Friday afternoon, 669 patients have recovered.

    The average altitude of Qinghai Province is above 3,000 meters.Due to high altitude and low oxygen level, the treatment of A/H1N1patients is more difficult than that in other regions as the patients on the tableland are easy to have complications, experts said.

    China reported its first death of A/H1N1 influenza after an 18-year-old Tibetan woman died on Oct. 4.

    The Chinese mainland had reported 26,348 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 influenza as of Friday, 22,746 of which had recovered and 23 cases with heavy symptoms, 10 of which had recovered, the notice said.

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