New cases of H1N1 reported in Pune
POSTED July 17, 2009 - 11:48 | POSTED BY Neharika Sabharwal
Last edited by Priya Markanda on July 17, 2009 - 14:24
The fresh cases include three each from Delhi and Pune, two from Bangalore, and one each from Kozhikode and Mumbai.
The Pune cases
With the inclusion of the two new cases, the total of swine flu affected persons in Pune totals 11. The latest are two students who seem to have acquired the disease from the school premises.
Both have been isolated at the ward of the Civic Naidu Hospital and are being closely monitored by the health officials.
Pradeep Awate of the state health department's influenza cell said the school in question had reported around five cases till date.
As a precautionary measure, to thwart the spread of the virus on the campus, the classes for Std VII to which the students belong, were suspended for a week by the health officials.
"The latest cases to have tested positive for H1N1 have not travelled out of the country, but are suspected to have got the infection from a 12-year-old student who returned from Indiana, USA, earlier. One of them, a boy, is a cousin of the 12-year-old, and the other, a girl, is a classmate," Awate said.
State officials have advised all the students of the class to maintain "a quarantine at home" and cautioned the parents to keep a vigilant eye for flu-like symptoms.
The civic health authorities have appealed to the people not to panic over the increasing number of Swine flu cases, assuring them that they were well equipped to control and prevent the virus.
New cases elsewhere in the country
The three new cases reported in Delhi are those of a seven-year-old local boy, who contracted the virus from his father who was tested positive earlier this month.
The remaining two include a 12-year-old girl who reached Delhi on July 10 from Bahrain, and a 34-year-old man who came in from Bangkok on July 8 and then reached Delhi by train on July 10 via Kolkata.
Bangalore reported as H1N1 positive a mother-daughter duo, who landed in the city on July 6 from New York.
In Mumbai, a 34-year-old man who flew in on July 9 from Munich was also found positive for the virus virus. A six-year-old girl traveling from Saudi Arabia on July 9 was another confirmed case of the influenza in Kozhikode.
According to official sources, Delhi has recorded the maximum number of swine flu cases followed by Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The Health Ministry said, "A total of 1,145 people have been tested so far of which 193 are positive for Influenza A(H1N1). As many as 348 out of the 1,145 people have been identified through entry screening, and 39 through contact tracing while the rest reported themselves."
Out of the 193 confirmed cases of the virus 133 patients have been discharged, while sixty patients are admitted in various hospitals across the country.
