Monday, July 6th, 2009
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will not be allowed to land in the country if he attempts to fly back a week after he was ousted by troops, the interim government said on Sunday.
“I have ordered that he not be allowed back in, come what may,” Enrique Ortez, the caretaker government’s foreign minister said when asked about allowing Zelaya’s aircraft to land. “We cannot allow recklessness, that a president of the republic dies, that a president of the republic is wounded, that anyone dies.”
Zelaya was forced out at gunpoint and exiled to Costa Rica a week ago. But he said from Washington that he will try to return to the Central American country on Sunday, perhaps accompanied by a group of left-wing presidents.
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Three pregnant women are in the San Juan de Dios hospital, in San José, infected with the AH1N1 flu virus, according to the ministerio de Salud. One is intensive care suffering from pneumonia.
Salud officials say the woman is in her 20th week of gestation and admitted to hospital last week, while the others are in isolation.
Dr. Ana Morice, viceministra de Salud, expalined that the women are in the high risk group, similar to those who suffer from diabetes, chronic pulmonary and smokers.
Dr. Morice said that a total of nine people are in hospital with the AH1N1 flu virus, one of the worst cases is of a 28 year old man in the hospital in Quepos. The Calderón Guardia (San José) is treating two cases and two more in the Max Peralta (Cartago). At the San Juan de Dios, there is one patient in addition to the three pregnant women.
The total number of infected has risen to 227 and three deaths have been recorded.
The ministra de Salud, María Luisa Ávila, is currently in Mexico attending a conference on the AH1N1 flu virus.
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