Nasser Public Hospital in Shubra al-Khaima, Qaliubiya Governorate, admitted on Tuesday three cases suspected of the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as the swine flu.
A medical source at the hospital told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the three cases' conditions were not stable.
The three have been isolated from other patients and their samples have been sent to the Ministry of Health's labs.
The Preventive Medicine Department took necessary procedures at the three patients' houses to prevent the spread of the disease.
Ali Abdel Moneim Mohamed, director of the hospital of health insurance in Minya, said that a 64-year-old man had caught swine flu.
He added that the man had been given required therapeutic doses, and would leave the hospital in the next few hours.
The Ministry of Health and Population has announced that up until Saturday 8 February, 38 deaths have been recorded as a result of the swine flu.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
