Thailand's Public Health Ministry on Tuesday announced the country's eighth death related to the Influenza A/H1N1 virus.

The eighth death is a man of 58 years old, who died from renal failure at a hospital in the capital of Bangkok, the Thai-language news agency INN reported.

As of Tuesday morning, the ministry announced 156 more confirmed cases, bringing the country's total number to 2,428.

On Saturday, the ministry reported the country's seventh flu death case, who is a 37-year-old woman from the central province of Ratcha Buri.

Thailand had its first two confirmed patients on May 12.

(Xinhua News Agency July 7, 2009)