A 75-year-old woman succumbed to the deadly swine flu virus in Pune on Thursday taking the country's swine flu death toll to 19.
Bharti Goyal died in the KEM Hospital. Earlier, a nine-month-old boy Rutwik Kamle died at the Sahyadri Munot Hospital.
With this, the number of flu deaths in Pune has risen to 12.
On Wednesday, a 48-year-old had succumbed to swine flu in Pune. This death was reported from the Sassoon General Hospital at around 4:30 p.m.
Earlier, a 50-year-old Neeta Meghani and a 33-year-old died in the same hospital.
Earlier in the day, a doctor and a 29-year-old woman had succumbed to the deadly virus in Nashik and Pune respectively.
In Nashik, 38-year-old doctor Rupesh Gangurde died at the Nashik Civil Hospital at around 2:30 a.m. this morning.
In Pune, Shrawani Deshpande died due to bilateral pneumonia following severe lung infection caused by the H1N1 virus at around the same time. 2:30 a.m.
Deshpande, a resident of Kothrud area, died at the Sasoon General Hospital.
Other swine flu deaths have occurred in Ahmedabad, Vadodra, Thane, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai.
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