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China offers Mexico $5m in swine flu aid
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-29 14:09

BEIJING -- China will offer humanitarian aid worth $five million to Mexico, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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The emergency humanitarian assistance comes in the wake of the epidemic of swine flu, and includes $one million in cash and material aid worth $four million, the ministry said.

The probable death toll from swine flu in Mexico rose to 159, the Mexican Health Ministry said late Tuesday.