30 fresh deaths take swine flu toll to 1,319 in India

March 07, 2015 19:59

hirty more persons, including a noted theatre personality, have died due to swine flu in the country taking the toll over the 1,300 mark even as SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, suspected to be suffering from the disease, was hospitalised.

Union Health Ministry data said 1,319 persons have perished due to the disease while the number of persons affected across the states stood at 24,661 as on March 6. The ministry had yesterday said that 1,289 had died while the number of those affected by it across the states was 23,922 as on March 5 this year.

Noted theatre personality and former HoD, foreign languages department of Agra University, Jitendra Raghvanshi died of swine flu today at a Delhi hospital. He was also an active member of the CPI.

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