152 more test positive for H1N1, national tally 1,707
POSTED August 17, 2009 - 17:07 | POSTED BY Priya Markanda
Last edited by Harpreet Bhagrath on August 17, 2009 - 17:49
28 deaths have been reported in the country so far, with Pune reporting 18, Bangalore 5, Mumbai 2, and Ahmedabad, Chennai, Nashik, Thiruvananthapuram and Vadodara one each.
String of positive cases across country
The financial capital Mumbai reported a total of 60 new confirmed cases, followed by Pune with 18 new cases, Delhi and Chennai 11 each, Coimbatore and Bangalore 10 each, Aurangabad 9, Mangalore and Ernakulam 3 each, Davangere, Akola and Jalna 2 each, and one each in Ahmadnagar, Solapur, Latur, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Dhule, Belgaum, Hubli, Hrudalaya (Karnataka), Dibrugarh and Shimla.
Of the eleven fresh cases of swine flu reported in the Capital Sunday, ten were indigenous ones with no overseas travel history. The other one is of a 14-year-old boy who returned from Britain recently. All these 11 cases have been home quarantined and no hospital admissions have been made.
Delhi’s nodal officer for swine flu, Dr. Anjan Prakash, informed that of these 11 new cases in the Capital, three were school-going children, aged between nine and 13 years.
The overall scene
