Pune: As many as 126 persons have tested
positive for H1N1 virus in the last fortnight in the city
which has recorded the highest number of Swine flu casualties
(40) in the country and the situation was "alarming",
according to a senior state health official.
Additional health director Dr Ashok Mehta told
reporters that the infection was becoming wide-spread among
students once again with many schools reporting positive cases
in recent days.
Nine persons tested positive on Friday and 243
suspected cases were being given Tamiflu tablets, he added.
The rate of the H1N1 infection had shown an upward
trend since Ganesh festival despite public appeals to avoid
overcrowding, health department sources said.
Thirteen patients were currently in ICU of different
hospitals and five were critical needing ventilator support,
hospital sources said.
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