As on 6th August 2009 World Health Organization has reported 1, 77,457 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 and 1462 deaths. Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 26 International airports. 42,541 passengers have been screened on 15.8.2009 of which 34,486 passengers were from affected countries. 225 doctors and 172 paramedics are manning 83 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 48, 10,024 passengers have been screened. One Hundred and fifty two positive cases have been reported today: Mumbai (60),Pune (18),Aurangabad (9),Akola (2), Jalna (2),Ahmadnagar (1),Solapur (1), Latur (1), Nagpur (1), Jalgaon (1), Dhule (1), Delhi (11), Bangalore (10), Mangalore (3), Davangere (2), Belgaum (1), Hubli (1), Hrudyalaya (Karnataka) (1), Dibrugarh (Assam) (1), Ernakulam (3), Coimbatore (10), Chennai (11) and Shimla (1).
Maharashtra has reported a total of ninety seven cases today. Sixty cases have been reported today from Mumbai, of which fifty seven are indigenous with no known foreign travel history. The other three cases [50/M, 21/F, 21/M] from Mumbai have travel history from Jeddah, Taiwan and Hongkong respectively. All the 18 cases reported from Pune are indigenous cases. Nine Indigenous cases are reported today from Aurangabad with no overseas travel history. Akola and Jalna each have reported two indigenous cases. Ahmadnagar, Solapur , Latur, Nagpur, Jalgaon and Dhule each has reported an indigenous case respectively.
Eleven cases have been reported today from Delhi, ten are indigenous cases with no known overseas travel history. The eleventh case is a 14 year old male with a travel history to UK. Karnataka has reported a total of 18 cases today. In Bangalore, all of the 10 cases reported are indigenous cases with no foreign travel history. Three indigenous cases in Mangalore with no overseas travel history are reported today. Two indigenous cases are reported from Davangere and one indigenous case each from Belgaum, Hubli and Hrudyalaya respectively. Three cases have been reported from Ernakulum. The first [36/M] and second [19/M] cases are indigenous cases with no foreign travel history. The third case is a 30 year old male who has travelled from Bahrain to Ernakulum.
All the eleven cases from Chennai are indigenous with no known overseas travel history. Coimbatore has reported ten indigenous cases today. The lone case [50 / F] from shimla is an indigenous case with no foreign travel history. 25 persons have died till today: Pune (13), Mumbai (2), Ahmedabad (1), Chennai (1), Vadodara (1), Nasik (1), Trivandrum (1) and Bangalore (5). 8658 persons have been tested so far out of which 1707 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. 725 out of the 8658 persons have been identified through entry screening, 1567 through contact tracing and the rest were self reported. Of the 1707 positive cases, 694 have been discharged.
A central team is stationed in Maharashtra to assist the State Government in instituting appropriate public health measures.
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