The Health Ministry said Thursday that two individuals – a 71 year old man and a 79 year old woman – who were suffering from various serious conditions, have passed away from complications caused by the H1N1 swine flu virus. The two had been patients at Soroka Hospital in Beersheva.

Although the role of the virus in their deaths was not clear, the Ministry said, they were being added to the list of those who have died from H1N1 because of the likelihood that the virus was the trigger that brought about their deaths.