With two more deaths in Bangalore, India’s swine flu toll has reached 25, even as 165 people tested positive for the virus
Saturday to take the total number of infected people in the country to 1,556, officials said
Two people died of the influenza A (H1N1) virus in the Karantaka capital Friday, taking the toll in the city to three, the officials said.
Shivanna, 55, died at Wockhardt Hospital in west Bangalore and Manjunath, 28, in Vydehi Medical Institute in eastern part of the city.
Shivanna, a resident of Rajajinagar in west Bangalore, was admitted to Wockhardt Aug 12 after complaining of breathlessness. Manjunath, a weaver in Dommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore, was admitted in a serious condition Aug 13, a Vydehi institute spokesperson said Saturday.
Pune, the city worst-hit by the flu, reported 69 new cases.
The other new cases were from Delhi (15), Kerala (13), Karanataka (12), Tamil Naidu (5), Kolkata (4), Shillong (4), Pondicherry (3), Mizoram, Gurgaon (2 each) and Gujarat, Goa, Hyderabad, Patna, Noida, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Faridabad (one each).
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 177,457 swine flu cases have been reported till Aug 6, while 1,462 deaths have occurred worldwide, mostly in Mexico and the US.
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