Anti-viral drugs are being issued to those affected by swine flu The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the UK has reached 1,004, health authorities have confirmed. The Health Protection Agency said there were 921 confirmed cases in the UK, with 72 new cases in England. Later, Scottish health authorities confirmed a further 83 cases, most of them in Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Health Secretary Andy Burnham told the Commons that the government did not believe that it could prevent a widespread outbreak "indefinitely". See a map of confirmed UK cases Seventy-four of the new cases are in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Scotland to 420. Two more people have been admitted to hospital, bringing the total number to 11. Five more schools have been closed. HPA figures showed there were 58 new cases in the West Midlands. The total number in the West Midlands is up to 229, which represents almost half of all England's cases. In a statement to the Commons earlier on Friday, Mr Burnham said 28 people had been admitted to hospital since the outbreak began. Mr Burnham stressed that most of those people had made a full recovery. He said: "We recognised from the outset that we would be unlikely to prevent a widespread outbreak indefinitely." Pandemic The UK has enough anti-viral drugs for 50% of the population and planned to raise that figure to 80%, Mr Burnham added. The World Health Organization has declared a pandemic following a sharp increase in the number of cases in Australia. Mr Burnham said: "In recent days there have been significant increases in the daily number of cases in certain parts of the UK - most notably Scotland where Health Protection Scotland has concluded that sustained community transmission appears to be taking place. "This is characterised by an increased number of sporadic cases. That is cases with no identifiable link with other confirmed cases." But he said the rise came as "no surprise" and was in line with what ministers knew about similar outbreaks. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. He said it was vital that the global community worked together and stated that the government had set aside a further £6m to help the international response. Mr Burnham said that at some point the focus would need to move from limiting the spread of a localised virus, to "mitigating the effects of a widespread virus". He said: "That point has not been reached yet." Infection Mr Burnham added: "We have advance purchase agreements which enable the UK to purchase up to 132 million doses of pandemic-specific vaccine - enough for two doses for 100% of the population, should this be necessary." The government has also ordered 226m face masks, 34m respirators and 15.2m courses of antibiotics. Mr Burnham also said there were no immediate plans for widespread closures of schools. He said: "Obviously, there may be circumstances where the Health Protection Agency consider it necessary to advise school closures because that may help with local containment of the disease." Meanwhile, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley praised the work of those involved in tackling the outbreak and called for more effort to help poorer countries. Pandemic status means the infection is spreading in at least two regions of the world. While the virus originated in Mexico in April, it has since spread to 74 countries, infected nearly 30,000 people and caused 141 deaths.
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Yesterday, the first fatality in the UK caused by swine flu was announced.  Jacqueline Fleming, who was 38, from Glasgow, Scotland, died at the Royal Alexandria Hospital in Paisley.  She had been admitted to hospital two weeks earlier after the premature birth of her baby son, Jack.  Reports suggest that she was admitted having suffered a  and suffered further complications, in part related to the birth of Jack.

Map of the UK colour coded by severity of H1N1 outbreak, as of 14 June.
Professor Hugh Pennington, a bacteriologist at  was quoted as saying that underlying health problems were likely to have been a significant factor in Jaqueline's death.  He also dismissed speculation that the virus was getting worse, saying "This is what the authorities have been saying will happen for a long time.  It does not point to the virus getting nastier. All the evidence to date suggests the virus is not changing at all."

Her son Jack died today in the special care unit of the same hospital at the age of two weeks, having been born 11 weeks early.  He was not affected by the H1N1 virus.

Jaqueline's husband stated today "My beautiful son was born on the first of June 2009, 11 weeks early. He suffered from a number of complications and despite his brave fight he passed away earlier this evening at the Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley." 

On Friday, the  said confirmed swine flu cases in the UK had reached 1004.  Recently, the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak to be a worldwide .