For the last 24 hours three people died of swine flu in the Balkan region.

A woman (52) from Gorazde, tested positive to the A-H1N1 virus, passed away last night in Sarajevo Clinical Center. Up to date the swine flu has claimed two lives in Bosnia/Herzegovina.

Some 20 people with swine flu symptoms were hospitalised in the capital Sarajevo, Tuzla and the northern town of Banja Luka, local media reported.

In Croatia, Health Minister Darko Milinovic said one person had died Thursday of swine flu, raising the Croatian A-H1N1 death toll to four. The fourth, as the third flu fatality this season in Croatia, was also vaccinated.

Slovenia reported the first swine flu death today.