Four more swine flu cases in Delhi; 39 infected across India

New Delhi, Jun 18 (PTI) Four more persons, including two
children, tested positive for swine flu in the capital taking
the total number of infected persons to 39 in India Thursday
even as Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the
presence of disease in the country was "negligible".

Out of the four new cases, two were that of human to
human transmission while two persons, who came to Delhi from
United States and Japan, tested positive for H1N1 virus. One
of the affected person is a woman.

"Four more persons have tested positive for swine flu.
One travelled from United States, another from Japan and two
others are from the capital," Delhi Health Minister Kiran
Walia told reporters here.

Walia said the government is awaiting the lab results
of 12 suspected patients.

Delhi government sources said the two of the affected
persons have not gone abroad and contracted the disease from
relatives who were tested positive. Their relatives have
returned from abroad.

With this, the number of swine flu infected patients in
Delhi has risen to 14, out of which six have already been
discharged from hospitals after treatment.

Azad said in Bhubaneswar today that swine flu is under
control in the country as the government had taken "effective"
and "extraordinary" measures.

"The presence of H1N1 virus is very negligible in the
country...While the US, whose population is about one fourth
of ours, has recorded around 18,000 cases of swine flu and 45
deaths, in India only 35 cases have been reported so far,"
Azad said.

Walia said they were installing air conditioners in
all isolation wards identified for treating the affected
people.

Six hospitals have been identified for treating swine
flu affected people in the capital, she said.

In Pune, five fresh cases of suspected swine flu have
been reported during the last two days.

A family of three comprising a 30-year-old woman and
her two children who arrived from Singapore were among the
five persons admitted to a hospital here. The remaining two
cases were that of two young men coming here from the US.

Two suspected cases have been reported from Akola
in Maharashtra and Ahmedabad.

With most of the swine flu affected people coming from
the US, the government said that country should on its own
start screening outbound passengers for symptoms of the
disease.

New Delhi has also asked the developed countries to
take action to check the spread of swine flu at their end. PTI
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