H1N1 influenza

MCD has now increased the budget by 12 crore, from the original 60 crore as they felt that a fresh tender for adding only 40 km of road stretch to the existent plan of 157 km could delay their work that was already running short of the deadline.

An MCD official reveals, "According to the terms and conditions of the contract, no fresh tenders could have been floated for road length measuring less than 100km. We could not have included these stretches in phase-III as more streetscape stretches had been taken up and streetlights had to be installed along these.”

Of these, three deaths were reported from Gujarat yesterday while one death each was reported from the states of Maharashtra and New Delhi.

Three of the deaths were reported Wednesday, while the remaining two causalities had occurred earlier and were confirmed by the respective state's health authorities on the same day.

Number of latest infections across the nation
According to official sources, 46 indigenous cases of the contagion were confirmed on Monday.

Of these fatalities, three deaths were reported from the state of Gujarat, while New Delhi and Maharashtra accounted for one death each.

Latest cases of the contagion
The highly infectious virus continued to circulate unabated and inflicted 64 persons on the same day, taking the tally of swine flu positive cases to 28,111 in the country.