August 16th Update: 152 New Cases

One Hundred and fifty two positive cases of swine flu have been reported in India today. We have enabled comments on the webstie and have found a number of readers worried about the outbreak. We would like to remind all of you that there is no reason to panic. The current strain of swine flu is completely curable and deaths happen only in rare instances where the patient is suffering from some underlying disease or with low immunity levels.

Infections by city:
Mumbai 60
Pune 18
Aurangabad 9
Akola 2
Jalna 2
Ahmadnagar 1
Solapur 1
Latur 1
Nagpur 1
Jalgaon 1
Dhule 1
Delhi 11
Bangalore 10
Mangalore 3
Davangere 2
Belgaum 1
Hubli 1
Hrudyalaya (Karnataka) 1
Dibrugarh (Assam) 1
Ernakulam 3
Coimbatore 10
Chennai 11
Shimla 1

Maharashtra has reported a total of ninety seven cases today. Sixty cases have been reported today from Mumbai, of which fifty seven are indigenous with no known foreign travel history. The other three cases from Mumbai have travel history from Jeddah, Taiwan and Hongkong respectively. All the 18 cases reported from Pune are indigenous cases. Nine Indigenous cases are reported today from Aurangabad with no overseas travel history. Akola and Jalna each have reported two indigenous cases. Ahmadnagar, Solapur , Latur, Nagpur, Jalgaon and Dhule each has reported an indigenous case respectively.

Eleven cases have been reported today from Delhi, ten are indigenous cases with no known overseas travel history. Karnataka has reported a total of 18 cases today. In Bangalore, all of the 10 cases reported are indigenous cases with no foreign travel history.

All the eleven cases from Chennai are indigenous with no known overseas travel history. Coimbatore has reported ten indigenous cases today.

The total number of cases rises to 1707 out of which 694 have been discharged.

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