A thirty-nine-year old woman has died in a hospital in Gori, in a town of eastern Georgia, from the flu, doctors say. She left behind five children.
It has not been confirmed so far whether it was the swine flu or not.
The woman died yesterday and she suffered from a high temperature and difficulty breathing. The woman had a heart disease which led to further complications, Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Disease Control Centre told the media.
More than 140 cases of flu have been reported over the course of past four weeks, 95 per cent of the cases were swine flu influenza caused by a relatively new strain of influenza virus A.
Six deaths have been reported.
The virus is officially known as influenza virus A/H1N1.
The Georgian National Disease Control Centre says that is no epidemic of the swine flu in the country as the average admittance to medical institutions because of the symptoms of flu amounts to 221 individuals per 100,000 people.