August 26th Update: 177 New Swine Flu Cases in India

One Hundred and Seventy Seven cases have been tested positive for swine flu in India today. The total number of deaths moves up to 75 with 8 being reported today. The total number of positive cases rises to 3273.

We would like to mention that testing for swine flu is NOT being done in all cases. In a few cases patients are being treated without testing. Therefore the total number of positive cases may be more than the number reported above. Keeping that in mind, it must be observed that the mortality rate of swine flu is very low and there is no need to panic. The mortality rate is similar to that of normal flu.

We suggest that people take good care of their health, exercise, eat nutritional food, sleep well, maintain a healthy weight and take less stress. These tips must be followed as a habit not only for prevention from swine flu.

From today we will be reporting cases only by state and not by each city. We will also be updating the map to show numbers by state.

State	New Cases	Total Cases	Deaths Today	Total Deaths
Delhi	30	540	0	3
Andhra Pradesh	7	123	0	0
Karnataka	22	352	4	19
Tamil Nadu	52	291	0	3
Maharashtra	31	1475	3	41
Kerala	15	150	0	1
Haryana	4	61	0	0
West Bengal	4	42	0	0
Uttarakhand	2	6	1	1
Jammu & Kashmir	2	17	0	0
Rajasthan	1	15	0	0
Uttar Pradesh	7	22	0	0
Total	177	3273	8	75

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abhijit from Pune on 27-Aug-2009 10:24

hello,
having a city wise breakup will help a lot in containing and avoiding the infection.
Its like losing steam on the work done so far.
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Parag from Pune on 27-Aug-2009 12:57

Agree with Abhijit. In fact, Pune being the so called "epi-centre", I would vote for having seperate stats for Pune.
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pkjain from Not Specified on 27-Aug-2009 12:26

No reference of gujarat and other state. Total seems incorrect.
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vinod from mumbai on 28-Aug-2009 8:19

citywise breakup will really help for accounting , kindly do this favour for all atleast give breakup for highly affected states like maharashtra & bangalore.
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DrKakani,Family Physician from Nagpur on 28-Aug-2009 8:31

Citywise breakup will help the private medical practitioners to keep a track of local spread & help curtail spread of infection locally.
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sugata mukherjee from kolkata on 28-Aug-2009 20:17

you have not given the number of cases for gujarat. then how are you accounting for the total number of cases in the country
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