Extracted from Trinidad Express
Friday October 16th 2009
Advertising agency executive Astra Da Costa died yesterday of 
complications related to the A H1N1 or swine flu virus.
Da Costa , 62, was the executive chairman of Port of Spain company Ample Advertising and was the chairman of the Queen's Hall board of directors.
She was also the first woman district governor of Rotary District 7030, regarded as a prestigious position in Rotary membership. She joined the Rotary Club of Central Port of Spain in 1995.
Da Costa travelled to St Lucia last month and returned home on September 26, her sister, Adonna Da Costa-Headley, told the Express by phone last night.
Da Costa complained of feeling unwell the day after she returned and was admitted to the Westshore Medical Hospital at Cocorite on September 27.
Her business partner, Alfred Aguiton, said last night Da Costa had an underlying medical problem that caused delicate tissues in her lungs to harden and the swine flu virus she contracted exacerbated her condition.
Test results from Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (Carec) on Wednesday night confirmed she had the virus, Aguiton said.
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