August 9th Update: 82 New Cases

Eighty two confirmed cases of swine flu have been reported in India today. Most of the cases are not from people travelling abroad but locally infected with no travel history. The health ministry has confirmed 4 deaths.

Infections by city:
Delhi 13
Pune 34
Mumbai 12
Chennai 7
Goa 4
Vadodara 3
Calicut 2
Hyderabad 2
Gurgaon 2
Trivandrum 1
Sirsa, Haryana 1
Trissur 1

In Delhi out of the 13 cases, twelve are contact cases. One case [31/M] travelled from Singapore

All the 34 cases in Pune are local cases mostly school and social contacts with no travel history.

In Mumbai out of 12 cases, eleven cases are local cases mostly contacts. The twelfth case is 8 year old male who travelled from Europe

Chennai has reported 7 cases. All of them are local cases with no abroad travel history.

In Goa, out of the four cases, one [17/M] is a contact of a previously reported positive case. The second [33/M] and third [36/F] case traveled from Bangkok

In Vadodara, out of the three cases, one brother and sister [9/M and 11/F] travelled from Virginia.

In Calicut, out of the two cases, one of them [20/M] travelled from U.K. He self reported with symptoms on 7th August 2009. The other case [54/M] has a travel history from Dubai. He also self reported with symptoms on 6th August 2009.

In Hyderabad, one [22/M] of the two cases is a contact case of previously reported positive case. The other case [40/M] travelled from California via Singapore reaching Hyderabad was found to be symptomatic at the airport and was admitted in the identified health facility.

The two cases in Gurgaon are contacts of previously reported positive cases.

The lone case [33/M] reported from Trivandrum is a local case.

In Sirsa, Haryana, one case [32/M] reported with symptoms on 6th August 2009. He has no foreign travel history.

The total number of cases now rises to 864 out of which 523 have been discharged.

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