August 24th Update: 137 New Cases of Swine Flu in India

After going down consecutively for four days, the number of swine flu cases reported today rises to one hundred and thirty seven. Chennai records the highest number with 41 cases. The official number of deaths reported is 63 although a number of newspapers are reporting higher number of deaths. The total number of infections has now risen to 2909.

New cities in the swine flu map today: Thringdy, Shimoga, Villupuram, Kottur

See the map for the number of infections for all cities in India

Breakup by city:
Delhi: 38
Hyderabad: 3
Thirngdy: 3
Trivandrum: 3
Kasargod: 1
Calicut: 2
Ernakulum: 1
Bangalore: 8
Shimoga: 1
Pune: 19
Mumbai: 5
Nanded: 1
Nashik: 2
Jalna: 1
Chennai: 41
Villupuram: 2
Kottur: 1
Coimbatore: 1
Srinagar: 3
Goa: 1

Out of the 137positive cases reported today, 6 cases have history of foreign travel. The rest are indigenous cases.

The cumulative laboratory confirmed deaths reported by the States as on 23rd August 2009 is 63: Maharashtra: 37
Karnataka: 14
Gujarat: 6
Tamil Nadu: 3
Delhi: 2
Kerala: 1

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