Swine flu continued to grip the country with 82 fresh cases today with 34 people testing positive in Pune.
Swine flu continued to grip the country with 82 fresh cases today with 34 people testing positive in Pune, one of the places worst hit by the infection with two deaths already reported from there.
With these cases, the total number of positive cases has gone up to 864 in the country.
About 4,084 people have been tested so far out of which 864 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), the health ministry said.
Of them, 633 have been identified through entry screening, 803 through contact tracing and the rest detected when they reported voluntarily. Of these positive cases, 523 have been discharged.
Delhi reported 13 cases followed by Mumbai (12), Chennai (7), Goa (4), Vadodara (3), Calicut (2), Hyderabad (2), Gurgaon (2) and one each from Trivandrum, Sirsa and Trissur, the ministry said.
Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in the 22 international airports where 224 doctors and 151 paramedics are manning 81 counters.
A total of 44,296 passengers have been screened so far. Of them, 37,181 passengers were from affected countries.
Out of the 13 cases in Delhi, 12 have contracted from positive patients while one man travelled from Singapore August and was detected to be symptomatic at the airport.
He has been admitted to the identified health facility, the ministry said.
All 34 patients in Pune are local cases and they do not have travel history.
Similarly, of the 12 patients in Mumbai, 11 are local cases while an eight-year-old boy who travelled from Europe tested positive for the virus.
Chennai has reported seven cases and all of them are local cases.
One of the four cases in Goa has a contact who previously tested positive to the virus. The second and third patients traveled from Bangkok while the fourth one travelled from Sharjah.
In Vadodara, out of the three cases, a brother-sister duo travelled from Virginia, USA. They reported with symptoms on August six. The third case is local case.
In Calicut, out of the two cases, one travelled from the UK while the other has a travel history from Dubai.
In Hyderabad, one of the two cases is a contact of an earlier positive patient. The other travelled from California via Singapore.
The two cases in Gurgaon are contacts of previously positive patients and the lone case reported from Trivandrum is a local case.
In Sirsa, Haryana, one patient has no travel history while in Trissur, the patient arrived from Los Angeles.
The 42-year-old schoolteacher, who died in Pune, had swine flu symptoms from August one and he took treatment at the local level. He was admitted to Sassoon Hospital on August seven. He expired in the early hours today.
There are six patients who are still admitted in Sassoon Hospital, Pune. Of them, the condition of three are critical, the Ministry said.
In Ahmedabad, a 42-year-old man, who travelled from Atlanta, died of swine flu. He was admitted in Sanjeevani Hospital on August six.
A Central team is stationed at Pune to assess the situation and institute appropriate public health measures.
The World Health Organization has reported 1,62,380 laboratory confirmed cases of Influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu) by July 31 and 1,154 deaths.
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