Six H1N1 deaths have occurred in the State this year in Bangalore, Yadgir, Bellary, Shimoga, Davangere and Udupi districts, while the Health department had confirmed 31 cases of the disease, out of the 896 blood samples taken, said Health Minister B Sriramulu.
Of the 31 cases, 22 were reported in Bangalore, three in Udupi, two in Bellary and one each in Tumkur, Shimoga, Bagalkot and Gulbarga.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has made it mandatory for all city hospitals to report dengue and chikungunya cases online.
Nodal officers of all 596 hospitals in the city will provide the exact figures of people hit by dengue and chikungunya, who are undergoing treatment there.
In 2005, a strain of the Chikungunya virus that arose in east Africa spread to the islands of Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles and Reunion in the south-western Indian Ocean.
Later that year, the virus began to cause large-scale outbreaks in India.
The MCD has made it mandatory for all 33 sentinel surveillance hospitals to report all dengue and chikungunya cases online to do away with the problem of under-reporting of cases.
The nodal officers of the hospitals have been trained to report the cases online, said an MCD official.
All the hospitals and other health service providers would be given a unique password to login and update the
The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up a controversy.
The number of dengue cases has seen a decline over a fortnight in Delhi, even as cases of several other viral infections, including chikungunya and seasonal fever, seem to maintain a rising trend.
The MCD has recorded 23 fresh cases of dengue today, pushing the cumulative count of people affected by the disease to 5,973 this year.
