Though the highly contagious respiratory disease H1N1 appears on its last leg in the country with declining transmissions, the danger is not well and truly over with the virus still circulating albeit with lesser intensity.
Reports of 11 new deaths Wednesday is a troubling reminder that the influenza continues to infect, sicken, and even kill at-risk people.
Since the lethal disease claimed its first victim on Aug. 3, the mortality figure in the nation has mounted to 1357.
One person succumbed to the virus in Rajasthan today, while the remaining ten deaths, five each were reported from the states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
All the ten casualties had occurred previously but were confirmed as H1N1 related by the respective states to the union health ministry today.
