Ahmedabad: Swine flu has claimed three more
lives in Gujarat, taking the death toll in the state to 242,
while 19 more persons on Tuesday tested positive for the infection.
According to Health Department officials, two patients
infected with H1N1, Hasumatiben Patel (55) and Arjun Solanki
(50), died at Civil Hospital here today. The third victim,
Joshna Ramanlal, succumbed at the Hospital yesterday.
The new cases were reported from Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar,
Rajkot, Jamnagar and Porbandar, they said.
So far, 1,289 people have tested positive for swine flu
in Gujarat, one of the worst-affected states in the country,
which reported the first confirmed H1N1 case in May last year.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 23:40