Deaths reported in financial hub Shanghai taking death toll to 13, amid rising H7N9 virus infection; State media
"The good news" was that there was still no evidence that humans had passed on the virus to other humans; O'Leary, head of WHO's office in China
The official Xinhua News Agency said on Sunday the two deaths were reported in Shanghai and that three new cases were also confirmed in the financial hub.
A total of 11 new cases were reported on Sunday - including two in a central province that previously had been unaffected. In all, 55 cases of the virus, known as H7N9, have been reported in China.
The latest cases in central Henan province, which is next to Beijing, followed an announcement on Saturday that a seven-year-old girl had become the first person in the capital to be infected with the virus.
'No surprise'
All previous reported cases were in Shanghai and other eastern areas of the world's most populous country.
4/15/2013
"The good news" was that there was still no evidence that humans had passed on the virus to other humans; O'Leary, head of WHO's office in China
A total of 11 new cases were reported on Sunday - including two in a central province that previously had been unaffected. In all, 55 cases of the virus, known as H7N9, have been reported in China.
The latest cases in central Henan province, which is next to Beijing, followed an announcement on Saturday that a seven-year-old girl had become the first person in the capital to be infected with the virus.
'No surprise'
All previous reported cases were in Shanghai and other eastern areas of the world's most populous country.
