Chilean Health Ministry reported on Monday the third death in the country due to the influenza A/H1N1 virus.

The patient, a 37-year-old man, arrived on very bad health condition to the Central Hospital of Santiago where he died short after being hospitalized, authorities said.

This case is added to the deaths of Fernando Vera Maldonado and Juan Humberto Pozas both from Los Lagos region, which has the largest number of confirmed cases in the country.

According to the last report of the Health Ministry till Friday there were 890 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu in the country.

Chile was the fifth country in the world, after the United States, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, to have reported a death due to H1N1 flu.

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2009)