Colombia confirmed on Tuesday its first death of A/H1N1 flu virus.

The 24-year-old woman who infected A/H1N1 virus died last weekend in hospital of Meissen, north of the capital Bogota.

Minister of Social Protection Diego Palacio said the woman died of severe pneumonia derived from the A/H1N1 influenza.

The authorities said on the same day that three people were tested positive for the influenza A/H1N1 virus, raising the total number of infected cases in the country to 28.

The National Institute of Health (INS) said that one patient was from the city of Medellin, and the other two from Barranquilla.

The patient from Medellin is a woman, coming back from California and Miami, United States. She suffered fever, headache and other uncomfortable symptoms on Jun 4.

"She is recovering satisfactorily," said the INS. Other two patients from Barranquilla are a woman, coming back from San Pedro Sula of Honduras, who developed cough and fever on Jun 5, and a man back from Miami on Jun 5, with symptoms of fever and cough.

Of the 28 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu, 22 cases are imported, and 6 are autochthonous.

According to the Social Protection Ministry, 1,115 people in Colombia have developed symptoms of influenza by far, 164 were suspicious.

(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2009)