VANCOUVER, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) - The British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government confirmed Tuesday eight more deaths from H1N1 flu during last week, raising to 42 the total number of deaths from the pandemic in the Canadian western province.

    The B.C. government said in a release that since Nov. 24, there had been 93 new severe cases of H1N1 identified in the province with an additional eight deaths reported.

    The B.C. Center for Disease Control reported that there had been 957 severe cases since April.

    The majority of lab-confirmed cases in B.C. have been mild or moderate in severity, with the patients either having already recovered or currently recovering, according to the B.C. government.

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