Suspected swine flu patient flies into Varanasi from Nepal

A 35-year-old Uruguayan national has been admitted to a hospital in the city after he displayed symptoms of swine flu. The man landed at Babatpur international airport from Kathmandu yesterday on an Indian Airlines flight, along with a group of 76 tourists, also from Uruguay.

After preliminary screening, airport authorities shifted him to a local primary health centre, from where he was shifted to the Divisional Government Hospital at Kabirchaura. He is being kept in an isolation ward and his lab samples have been sent to Delhi for testing, additional chief medical officer Lal Chandra Yadav told PTI.

Five other passengers who were sitting near the suspected swine flu patient have been asked to stay at hotel and told not to leave the city.