India’s swine flu toll 1070
POSTED January 12, 2010 - 12:30 | POSTED BY Kangna Agarwal
Last edited by Harpreet Bhagrath on January 12, 2010 - 12:46
Of these fatalities, two were reported from the national capital, four from Rajasthan, and one causality each was reported from Punjab, Assam and Madhya Pradesh.
Fresh cases of H1N1 influenza
The highly infectious virus continued to circulate unabated and inflicted 83 persons on the same day, taking the tally of people affected with the influenza to 27,795.
The fresh cases of the swine flu infection reported across different parts of the country were as follows: 20 in Maharashtra, 14 in Rajasthan, 13 in Gujarat, eight in Delhi, seven in Punjab, six each in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, five in Chandigarh, three in Haryana and one in Andhra Pradesh.
"Till date, samples from 117,507 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 27,795 of them have been found positive," said a statement issued here.
National capital records
With the two causalities reported from New Delhi on Monday, the death count due to the contagious virus reached 87 in the city, health officials said.
The causalities include a 41-year-old man who died in the Apollo Hospital and a 36-year-old woman who died in the GTB Hospital Monday, said Anjana Prakash, Delhi's deputy nodal officer for swine flu.
"Both of them were admitted to the hospital with severe lung infection," Prakash was quoted by IANS as saying.
Apart from the swine flu deaths, six new cases of the contagion were also reported in the city on Monday, taking the cumulative swine flu infections count to 9,562.
State-wise death count
Although on Monday there was no record of a causality from Maharashtra—the epicenter of H1N1 influenza in India—the state accounts for 284 deaths, highest in the country.
After Maharashtra, the states to have recorded the maximum number of swine flu deaths are: Rajasthan with 166 deaths, Gujarat 152 and Karnataka 137.
The total swine flu deaths in other states are: 85 in Delhi, 52 in Andhra Pradesh, 36 in Punjab, 34 in Kerala, 33 in Haryana, 17 in Uttar Pradesh, 13 each in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, eight each in Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, seven in Tamil Nadu, six in Puducherry, five in Goa, three in Orissa, two each in Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and Chhattisgarh and one in Mizoram.
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