Meanwhile, Chinese health officials reported that an 18-year-old women in Lhasa, the capital of the far western Tibet Autonomous Region, had become the country's first death from H1N1, the Wall Street Journal reports (Canaves, 10/6). In response, the Chinese government "'urgently' sent 200,000 doses of influenza A (H1N1) vaccine to the region in a bid to contain the virus, China's health ministry said in a statement on its website," AFP/Times of India reports (10/6).

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