KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 (Bernama) -- The public has been urged to maintain cleanliness, practice a healthy lifestyle and adopt influenza A H1N1 guidelines.
Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said although the H1N1 cases had plummeted and no new deaths were reported, the flu was still active in the community.
Eighty-one influenza-like illness (ILI) patients were admitted nationwide while 152 more were discharged today, he said in a statement.
This bring the total ILI cases to 635, of which 31 were confirmed infected with H1N1, while the death toll remain at 77, he added.
He said eight H1N1 patients were still in the intensive care units (ICU) and they were high-risk patients - three were children below five, three suffering from chronic diseases, an obese person and another a child below five with a chronic disease.
-- BERNAMA
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