Mother-child duo, school kid test positive for swine flu

Bangalore/Jalandhar, June 14 (PTI) A mother-child duo
from Bangalore and a school student from Jalandhar, who
returned from the US, have tested positive for swine flu,
taking the total number of cases in the country to 20 on
Sunday while three persons were quarantined in Hyderabad with
suspected symptoms.

A 29-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter,
who were quarantined at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest
Diseases in Bangalore, tested positive, Director of Health and
Family Welfare Services Usha Vasunkar said. The duo had
arrived at Bengaluru airport from New Jersey on June 12.

A couple and a woman, who were also quarantined at the
institute, have tested negative, she told PTI.

In Jalandhar, Civil Surgeon Dr S S Walia said a
student of Guru Amar Dass Public School has been found
positive for swine flu and admitted to a Delhi hospital.

"31 students had gone to an educational trip to the US
and when they came back yesterday, one of them was found at
Delhi Airport to have symptoms of swine flu. He accordingly
was put to tests that found him positive," he told reporters,
adding eight others of the group were having light fever.

"We are persuading parents of the eight students to
keep their children in an isolated ward of civil hospital, so
that they could be kept under observation till the report of
their blood samples come from Delhi, where it were sent,"
principal of the school Tarlochan Singh said.

In Hyderabad, three persons with suspected symptoms
were admitted to the Chest Hospital, its Superintendent Dr S V
Prasad told PTI. They were a nine-year-old boy who traveled
from New York, a 43-year-old lady who arrived from Kuwait and
a five-year-old girl who came from the US.

The hospital at present has two confirmed cases of
swine flu -- a six-year-old girl and her one-and-a-half-year-
old cousin brother, Prasad said.

The Indian Union Health Ministry had Saturday warned
of a spurt in number of cases after monsoon.

"They say that the H1N1 group of viruses proliferate
more when the weather is slightly cooler," Health Secretary
Naresh Dayal had said.

In Delhi, the government has asked all hospitals to
ensure that no person, admitted with symptoms of swine flu,
should be allowed to leave the hospital without the permission
of authorities concerned.

The instructions came after a 38-year-old resident of
Faridabad, who was admitted to RML Hospital soon after his
arrival from Germany, left the hospital Saturrday without
informing anyone. Earlier, a 34-year-old businessman, who
arrived from New York, had given a slip to the hospital
authorities. PTI TEAM
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