The victim was a 38-year-old man in capital city of Bucharest, whose condition was aggravated by other illnesses.
So far, there are 95 laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu (H1N1) in Romania, according to the national center.
For now, it is not an epidemic yet, but isolated cases detected in Bucharest and 11 counties out of 41 of the administrative divisions in the country, according to the local medical authorities.
Romanian authorities were put on alert after the recent outbreak of the deadly swine flu in neighboring Ukraine, which caused the death of more than 120 people so far.
Romanian doctors are urging people to have the flu vaccination, especially children, the elderly and those with chronic heart and lung disease.
In the winter of 2009-2010, the flu transmitted by this kind of virus turned into a pandemic in Europe, causing some 122 deaths in Romania, out of the more than 7,000 infected.
Romania records first swine flu human death this winter
04 February 2016
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The first swine flu human fatality was recorded Thursday in Romania, announced the National Center for Oversight and Control of Transmissible Diseases.
