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LUCKNOW: Lucknow reported 41 fresh cases of swine flu on Sunday taking with it the number of persons who have been affected with the disease to 393 in the city alone.

AHMEDABAD: Swine flu continues its death march unabated as total 170 people have succumbed to H1N1 virus infection till August 12 since January.

BHUBANESWAR: As many as 16 fresh cases of swine flu were detected on Sunday taking the total number of persons affected with the viral infection to 119 in Odisha so far this year.

Five more cases of swine flu surfaced in the city today. A six-year-old girl from Bapudham Colony was admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research.

Meanwhile, in between continuous drives running in the city to find and destroy dengue larvae, four new patients of dengue also have been registered, taking the total number to 37, and one death so

A fall in temperatures has increased the number of swine flu cases in Gujarat. Ahemdabad alone has reported 28 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, and counting.

Such is the situation that Patiala’s Rajindra Medical College has exhausted its stock of testing kits and the lab is now waiting for kits from the Centre.

LUCKNOW: Lucknow reported 23 fresh cases of swine flu on Wednesday with seven of these cases being that of children between the age of one and seven years.