Swine flu claims four more lives, 15 critical in Pune

Pune/Dehradun/Bangalore, Aug 31 (PTI) The death count
in the unrelenting swine flu pandemic has crossed the 100 mark
after the virus claimed four more lives in three states.

With three men dying in Pune and Bangalore and a woman
succumbing in Dehradun, the toll across India due to infection
now stands at 102.

As many as 15 patients, currently undergoing treatment
for the viral disease, are in a critical condition in various
hospitals in worst-hit Pune, where 31 people have died due to
the infection, officials said.

Swine flu cases continued to swell across the country
with 128 more testing positive for the virus, taking the total
number of flu cases till Sunday to 3,881, the Health Ministry
said in Delhi.

42-year-old Vilas Padale and 26-year-old Anil Nikam
died due to the flu at separate private hospitals in Pune
Sunday night, officials said Monday.

35-year-old Rubina, a resident of Mussoorie, who was
suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last five days,
died in Doon Hospital Sunday night, nodal officer dealing with
flu in Uttarakhand Pankaj Jain said in Dehradun. Her throat
swab has been been sent for test, he said.

Sudhakar, a 28-year-driver, passed away because of
the infection Monday at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest
Diseases (RGICD) in Bangalore, raising the toll in Karnataka
(southern state) to 26. He was suffering from flu symptoms
since Friday and he had been put on ventilator support and
administered Tamiflu, RGICD Director Shahshidhar Buggi said.
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