Young man dies of pneumonia in Zugdidi

A young man has died of pneumonia in Zugdidi referral hospital. Clinic manager Sulkhan Orzhonia told InterPressNews that the patient was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of acute respiratory viral infection on January 1 and died on January 4.

According to him, the hospital has not yet received results of analysis to determine whether the case was H1N1, so called swine flu virus.

Five patients with symptoms of flu are currently being treated in Zugdidi hospital.