Uruguay's health authorities confirmed on Thursday that two more people have died of the A/H1N1 flu, as the death toll reaching three in the country.

A woman of 54 died in a hospital in Maldonado, 140 km to east of the capital Montevideo, and a man of 60 died in a Montevideo hospital.

Hospital sources said that the man had diabetes and heart problem, while the women had pneumonia.

The Public Health Ministry said in a Thursday statement that there have been 132 A/H1N1 flu cases in the country.

"We remain within the limits of numbers that are hospitalized in winter," said the statement, adding that in a typical year, between 60 and 80 people die of seasonal flu. "We are not facing a health emergency," the statement added.

Uruguay's first death from the flu was a woman of 60 who had heart problems and kidney failure.

The first two cases in the country were confirmed on May 27, of two young people who had traveled to neighboring Argentina.

(Xinhua News Agency July 3, 2009)