Two more swine flu deaths in Delhi

NEW DELHI - The national capital Monday reported two more swine flu deaths, taking the total number of fatalities due to Influenza A (H1N1) to 44, officials said.

The victims were a 11-year-old girl and a 43-year-old woman. “Both were suffering from bronchal pneumonia,” Anjana Prakash, additional nodal officer handling swine flu cases in Delhi, told IANS.

“With these two deaths, the total death count in Delhi is 44,” she added.

The girl was admitted to the GTB hospital and the woman to the Lok Nayak hospital.

Delhi also recorded 154 new cases of swine flu Monday, of which 88 were children. This has taken the cumulative total number of swine flu cases in the capital to 7,506, Prakash said.