Swine
flu Reports
No
swine flu case in India, over 41,000 passengers screened
New Delhi: The health screening of passengers
coming from countries affected by swine flu is continuing at 21 international
airports in the country. Health ministry sources said that the screenings were
being carried out in Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin,
Coimbatore, Delhi, Varanasi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore,
Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Srinagar, Trichy and Trivandrum. So far, 41,012 passengers
have been screened. Around 7157 passengers were from affected countries. 140 doctors
and 101 paramedics have been deployed to man 59 counters at the above airports.
A passenger screened at Hyderabad airport has been referred to the identified
hospital. The clinical samples tested so far have been negative for Influenza
A. Minister of State (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare reviewed
the situation today. As of now, no case has been reported in India . The situation
is being monitored.
The
World Health Organization has reported 658 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza
A/H1N1 infection with 17 deaths from sixteen countries. There are 160 laboratory
confirmed human cases in the USA with one death. Mexico has reported 397 cases
including sixteen deaths. The other countries which have reported laboratory confirmed
cases with no deaths are: Austria (1), Canada (51), Hong Kong (Special Administrative
Region of China) (1), Costa Rica (1) Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (6), Israel
(3), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (4), Republic of Korea (1) Spain (13), Switzerland
(1) and United Kingdom (15).
-May
3, 2009
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