Swine flu cases climb to 44

Friday, 19 June 2009

Fresh cases of swine flu have been reported from Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, taking the total number of positive cases across the country to 44 on Thursday.

Five cases have been reported from Delhi, three from Bangalore and one case tested positive in Hyderabad on Thursday, a Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry
official said.

All the patients are undergoing treatment in isolation facilities. Three of the isolated patients in Delhi had arrived from the United States, Japan and Australia.

The other two cases in Delhi have not travelled abroad and are family contacts of the two positive cases reported on Wednesday.

The cases in Bangalore have travelled from the U.S. and Thailand. The case in Hyderabad has travelled from the United States.

So far samples of 370 people have been tested, of which 44 have tested positive for swine flu.

Of these, only four are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases that have come to India from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the virus.