Five more persons, including three in the national capital, tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday as the total number of cases nationwide rose to 68.
One case in Delhi is that of a human to human transmission while the others in the city who were detected with the virus are women, a senior Health Ministry official said. The other two cases are from Bangalore and Hyderabad. The human to human transmission case is that of a 15- year-old man who got the infection from a family member who was earlier detected as positive. The other cases in the city are that of a 58-year-old woman, who travelled from the US, and a 23-year-old woman, who reached from from Canada. With this, the number of cases in Delhi has risen to 29.
Two persons had tested positive for the virus from the city, which has reported the highest number of swine flu cases in the country so far. The case from Bangalore is that of 25-year-old man who came to the southern city yesterday while a 30-year-old woman, who came from the US, tested positive for the disease in Hyderabad. "Out of the 68 cases, 41 have been discharged. Rest of the patients are admitted to the identified health facilities across the country," the official said.
The WHO reported 52,160 laboratory confirmed cases of A/H1N1 influenza infection from 99 countries till Monday. There have been 231 deaths due to swine flu. In India, health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 international airports. Till Monday, 45,493 passengers have been screened of which 27,906 passengers were from affected countries. In Goa, samples of two suspected swine flu patients in have been sent for testing at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in Delhi. "The mother-son duo have been quarantined and the report of their samples is awaited," an official said. The 32-year-old son had arrived from US on June 2 and developed flu-like symptoms after few days, the official said, adding his mother, who lives in Goa, also showed similar symptoms later.
