CAIRO, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Egypt reported on Saturday the fifthA/H1N1 flu death case, the health ministry said in a statement.

    A nine-year-old child from Helwan governorate, to the south of the capital, died of A/H1N1 virus in an unnamed hospital in Cairo on Saturday morning, the statement said without elaborating.

    Up till now, the ministry has reported more than 1,000 cases of the novel flu in the most populous Arab country.

    Egypt reported its first A/H1N1 flu case on June 2, a 12-year-old Egyptian-American girl coming from the United States via the Netherlands.

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