Swine Flu claims 2 lives in India's national capital
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 25, IRNA -- Two women died due to swine flu in India’s national capital, Delhi, taking the toll to 23 including eight from outside the city so far this year.
'Two women succumbed to H1N1 virus. One was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital and another in Lady Hardinge Medical College. Both the victims of H1N1 virus were from the city,' Dr Debashish Bhattacharya, Delhi government's nodal officer for H1N1 cases, said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 37 swab samples tested positive for swine flu virus, taking the total count of confirmed cases in the city this year to 659.
According to health officials, with 79 falling prey to the influenza in the past one week and 1,335 fresh infections surfacing across the nation.
“Till date, samples from 163,289 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 38,730 (23.7 percent) of them have been found positive,” an official statement from the health ministry said.
Maharashtra was the worst hit accounting for 40 casualties, the highest number of deaths in the second wave of the pandemic.
The state also saw a surge in infections of swine flu for more than a month with the number touching 411 this week.
The second highest fatalities were from Gujarat which confirmed 42 cases and 12 deaths in a week.
Close on the heels came Karnataka which reported 291 cases and eight deaths, followed by Delhi which accounted for 257 infections and five deaths.
The southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu also saw a spate of new cases with the two states reporting 103 and 72 infections respectively.
However, the situation in Kerala, which had witnessed the maximum number of cases in the beginning of the season of the epidemic, has stabilized with the state reporting only nine cases in the week gone by.
Meanwhile, Delhi is also reeling under the influence of Dengue. 26 positive cases were reported on Friday, taking the number of dengue cases in the capital to 348.
Four people have reportedly died of dengue in Delhi. One death was confirmed by the authorities, while the other three deaths were put in suspected category. Jamia Nagar, Okhla and Shahdara have reported the maximum number of dengue cases.
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