News Desk
The Statesman
Publication Date: 25-06-2009

Five people were detected to have been affected with swine flu in June 24, taking the total number of influenza A (H1N1) cases in India to 73, health officials said.

Two of the new cases are from Delhi, while one each is from Madurai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh, according to the officials.

“At least 532 persons have been tested so far. Of them 73 are positive for influenza A(H1N1). Of these, six are indigenous cases, who got the infection from the positive cases who travelled from abroad,” said an official statement issued here.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at least 55,867 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection have been reported from 108 countries. There have been 238 deaths worldwide, mostly from Mexico and the USA. A young computer science student has tested positive for Swine Flu, becoming first patient in Chandigarh to have contracted the viral infection, health officials said.

The 19-year-old boy arrived at his house in Gurdaspur on June 21 and came to the city on June 23, where he was hospitalised at the GMSH-16 following symptoms of Swine Flu, a doctor at the GMSH, where the patient has been quarantined, said.

“The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi, where his throat swab sample was forwarded for a lab test, confirmed the presence of the virus,” said Dr HC Gera, UT nodal officer.
Though the patient’s condition was described as stable, he was likely to be kept in the hospital for at least a week, he said.

This was the first confirmed case of swine flu in Chandigarh, although more than 20 suspected cases had been reported and proved negative over the past one month, Dr Gera said.

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