With the detection of 14 new cases on Wednesday, the total number of Swine Flu inflicted persons in the country rose to 261, of them one has died.
"Fourteen more cases have been detected today as we have tested few samples of suspected swine flu cases collecting from different hospitals in the city", IEDCR Senior Scientific Officer Dr Mushtaque Hussein told a seminar on Swine flu.
NEW DELHI: Eighteen more positive cases of swine flu have been identified in various hospitals and among patients in home quarantine, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said on Wednesday.
Prof. Walia said that with these new cases, a total of 685 patients have been admitted and treated in the Capital
Andhra Pradesh, which registered one of the first cases of influenza A (H1N1) in the country, reported two deaths, with two men succumbing to the virus. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Mr Navin Mittal, Hyderabad District Collector, said a 35-year-old man from Champapet in the Old City died at the Government Chest Hospital at Yerragadda.
LUCKNOW: Nine fresh cases of swine flu were reported in the state capital on Tuesday, taking the state total to 83. Health authorities claimed that most of the cases were related to existing patients.
THE government has decided to let Anglo-American drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) conduct human trials of its swine flu vaccine here to make it available for patients by the year-end, director-general health services (DGHS) Dr RK Srivastava said.
Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister Kuzholuzo Nienu yesterday declared that his is well prepared to tackle the H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) in the State.
