The A/H1N1 virus is taking lives in all three Baltic states, with Lithuania declared a national pandemic and Latvia with several epidemic zones.

RIGA — Two more people have died of swine flu in Latvia Tuesday, prompting the Infectology Center of Latvia to declare the virus an epidemic in five regions of the country including the capital Riga.

The latest data on Wednesday from the center confirmed that the Gulbene, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Riga and Rēzekne all had exceeded the threshold limit of 100 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants.

The Rēzekne region is experiencing the country’s worst epidemic with 988 per 100,000 infected with the virus.

The epidemic status of the virus was confirmed to Baltic Reports by the epidemiological monitoring unit of the Ministry of Health.

A 49-year-old Riga man and a 60-year-old Jekabpils woman died of the virus, the center reported.

Including the most recent deaths, the virus has now killed three Latvians.

Children aged between five and 14 have been infected most severely out of all age groups at a rate of 1,735.5 per 100,000 the center reported.

Next were children in the zero to four age range with 1,256.6 per 1000,000. So far the epidemic is not affecting seniors over the age of 65.

Latvia is the second Baltic state to declare certain areas epidemic zones. Lithuania declared several municipalities epidemic zones last week before a national pandemic was declared Tuesday.