Death Toll in India at 37

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99 flu cases, 1 more death today; total cases cross 2000

PTI | New Delhi

One infant died of swine flu on Tuesday as the death toll due to the disease rose to 30 while 99 fresh cases of the viral infection were reported from across the country taking the total count to over 2,000.

A seven-month-old girl, Modia Mohammad Shaikh, died of swine flu at the municipal Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai.

In the backdrop of the rising number of flu cases, top government officials held a meeting today chaired by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar discussing the situation and reviewed the measures taken by the Health Ministry to contain the spread of the viral disease.

Of the fresh cases, Delhi reported 10, while Bangalore and Mumbai reported 20 each. Pune reported 18 cases.

While Aurangabad, Ahmedabad and Dhule reported three cases each, Panchkula, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Cochin, Calicut, Nashik and Dibrugarh reported two cases each.

Ghaziabad, Goa, Udupi, Manipal, Surat, Silchar, Kolhapur and Satara reported one each.

The two cases reported from Cochin have a travel history to Dubai.

One of the cases reported from Delhi had a travel history to Thailand while two others have traveled to Australia. One of the two cases reported from Hyderabad has a travel history to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

All other cases reported during the day are indigenous cases with no foreign travel history.

A total of 10,578 people have been tested so far out of which 2,026 tested positive for swine flu. Of the 2,026 positive cases, 708 have been discharged.

 

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Re: Death Toll in India at 33

Re: Death Toll in India at 33

Source: http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=23924

India: Swine flu toll mounts to 33
Publication Date 19/8/2009 9:57:43 PM(IST)

Nashik/New Delhi: Two more deaths were reported from Nashik in Maharashtra, mounting the toll to 19 in the state.

The toll in Nashik has risen to three with the authorities today confirming that samples of two people have tested positive.

Nashik Civil Hospital sources said though they died last week, their throat swab samples sent for test to National Institute of Virology in Pune were reported positive for Swine flu only yesterday. At least 12 people had tested positive for the dreaded disease in Nashik. While three of them died, five were discharged after the treatment. So far, 17 suspected patients of the H1N1 flu have been discharged, and 17 others, including four affected people, were undergoing treatment at Civil Hospital. Their condition was said to be improving.

Uttarakhand registered its first swine flu death with a 24-year-old man succumbing to the dreaded disease.

Twenty five confirmed H1N1 patients were admitted to hospitals in the Capital over the past 24 hours. The nationwide death toll stood at 33-including 13 in Pune, three each in Mumbai and Nashik, five in Karnataka, three in Gujarat, two in Chhattisgarh and one each in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Uttarakhand. Raunak Singh who had returned from Pune a few days ago, was admitted to the Doon Hospital in Dehra Dun with Flu-like symptoms, Director, Health, Dr P L Joshi said.

His condition deteriorated following which he was referred to a New Delhi hospital. He died near Meerut yesterday while being taken to Delhi.

Earlier, five people were diagnosed with positive Swine Flu symptoms in the state, but they were discharged after treatment. Twenty five confirmed H1N1 patients were admitted to hospitals in the Capital over the past 24 hours, while a 31-year-old male patient admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital continued to be critically ill.

Delhi government''s Nodal officer for H1N1, Dr Anjan Prakash said 362 patients were affected by H1N1 so far in the Capital, out of which 320 had been successfully treated. Forty two H1N1 patients were being treated in the Capital now, of which nine were being treated at hospitals, while 33 were being treated through home quarantine.

Dr Prakash, however, said the incidence of H1N1 had not actually increased.

''Rather, as many as 258 detection reports had come in during the last 24 hours. That is why the number of new patients is higher.'' Yesterday, ten H1N1 patients had been admitted in Delhi.

Three more positive cases of Swine flu were registered in Aurangabad, Maharashtra today taking the number of affected peoplein the district to 11. ''Out of the 145 samples sent to the NIV since August 9, we received eleven more reports last night, out which three were positive,'' District Civil Surgeon P S Gawali told UNI, Two patients, suspected of suffering from H1N1, died at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Aurangabad, in the past 24 hrs, Dr Gawali said. Sixty two-year-old Rita Rahuri, who was admitted to the GMCH isolation ward in serious condition yesterday, died this morning. Rita, an asthama patient, was referred to GMCH from a private hospital where she was admitted with flu like symptoms. Dr Gawali said reports of the swab samples of both the deceased are awaited from the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune.

Meanwhile, Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries was continuing in 22 International airports. A total of 37,082 passengers were screened yesterday, of which 30,599 passengers were from affected countries. Altogether 225 doctors and 172 paramedics were manning 83 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 49,28,685 passengers had been screened. Altogether 11,724 persons have so far been tested, of which 2242 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. About 784 of the 11,724 persons have been identified through entry screening, 1663 through contact tracing and the rest were self reported. Of the 2242 positive cases, 758 have been discharged.

 

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Re: Death Toll in India at 37

Source: http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/2009/08/woman-dies-of-swine-flu-in-pune-india_20.html

Thursday, August 20, 2009
Woman dies of Swine Flu in Pune, India Toll goes up to 37

Pune: A 27-year-old woman died of Swine Flu in Pune today, taking the death toll in the city to 16. The woman, Dipti Pawar, was admitted to the Sassoon hospital in a critical condition on August 16. With this, the number of Swine Flu death toll in India has gone up to 37. Pune has reported 16 A H1N1 deaths so far, while Bangalore has reported 7.

Two people succumbed to A H1N1 virus in Pune yesterday. Bangalore reported two deaths yesterday, while one person died in Aurangabad. A 38-year-old woman, Renu Gupta and 31-year-old Samrat Pandey died in Delhi today.