Swine Flu: 96 new cases; Govt says stay calm
New Delhi, Aug 8: Accounting for country's highest number of Swine Flu or H1N1 cases detected in one day, India reported 96 fresh cases of the flu on Friday, Aug 7. The total number of cases is up to 712.
In spite of these startling number of new cases the government is asking the country to stay calm.
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"We
have
managed
to
limit
such
cases
to
a
few
individuals,
considering
the
size
of
our
population," Union
Health
Minister
Ghulam
Nabi
Azad
said.
In two cases in Pune that was declared critical on Friday, Aug 7 the men continue to deteriorated because they had existing diseases.
"One of them is a 35-year-old chemist with a heart problem and the other is a doctor with pneumonia," said DB Kadam, head of medicine at Sassoon.
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With the number of Swine flu cases tallying up to 204 in the state of Maharashtra, Rajasthan government too issued a travel advisory asking people not to travel to the state. This comes after the advisory issued by Tamil Nadu. However, Maharashtra on Friday, Aug 7 said that the state was completely safe.
Three
doctors
one
each
from
Safdarjang
Hospital,
a
CGHS
dispensary
in
Timarpur,
and
a
private
hospital
have
tested
positive
in
the
country's
capital.
The Information and Broadcasting ministry has directed the media to not create panic as India has just reported one death as opposed to over thousand worldwide. The media is also advised not to show the faces of those who have tested positive for the Influenza A (H1N1) virus.
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