Meanwhile, neighbouring Mizoram has started screening people entering the state through the India-Myanmar border, officials said. A screening centre has been set up at Zokhawthar in the border district of Champhai, besides one at Lengpui Airport.
Swine flu: Earlier, the district health department had issued an advisory and had set aside 10 beds each at various hospitals. Greater Noida had reported 32 cases of swine flu last year.
Children of a school in Kerala's Kozhikode have been diagnosed with swine flu. The children had complained of fever after which their blood samples were sent for test. The test later confirmed H1N1 (swine flu).
The Delhi government recently said all government hospitals in the city are equipped with necessary logistics required for the management of the disease.
The death toll due to swine flu in Delhi this year still stands at six, a report of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) stated.
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Two people succumbed to the virus in Jodhpur and Barmer on Tuesday, taking the death toll due to swine flu in the state to 88.
Till January 28, Delhi was third in the number of swine flu cases after Rajasthan and Gujarat, however now it is in the second position registering 1,011 cases, with 479 new cases recorded in the last one week. This was seen in the Union health ministry data, Delhi.
Last year, the country reported 14,992 cases and 1,103 deaths due to the flu.
Five persons died on Friday and three died on Saturday, according to the spokesperson of the state medical and health department here.
The data was released by the government, which mentioned 2,572 swine flu cases in the country with Rajasthan recording 1,508 cases and 56 deaths this year till Thursday.
BJP President Amit Shah has been discharged from AIIMS Delhi where he was admitted for his treatment of swine flu, BJP leader Anil Baluni told media.
According to concerned authorities, more than 1000 people have been tested positive for H1N1 virus since January 1.
BJP president Amit Shah took to Twitter to inform that he is suffering from H1N1 flu is also known as swine flu.
Five more swine flu deaths were reported in Gujarat since yesterday, taking the toll due to the H1N1 virus in the state since January this year to 343.
Swine flu is caused by H1N1 influenza virus and is a respiratory disease. Being a contagious disease, H1N1 virus transmits form an infected person to a healthy one
Swine flu has claimed over 1,000 lives so far this year, which is four times more than deaths recorded last year, with a total of 22,186 cases reported across the country till now, data from the Union health ministry revealed
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