Saturday, August 22, 2009

HINI virus: 3 more die, death toll crosses 50 mark

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ew Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) Three more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu today, pushing the country-wide fatalities from the HINI pandemic to 51.

A death each occurred in Pune, Tamil Nadu and Goa with four more testing positive for the virus in Assam even as close to 2,600 patients were undergoing treatment across the country.

With a 60-year-old man succumbing to the disease in Pune in Maharashtra, the city recorded its 20th swine flu death.

All educational institutions in Pune, which reported its first fatality on August three, had been shut for the past one week to prevent the spread of the infection.

The flu claimed its third victim in Tamil Nadu when a 45-year-old man died at the government hospital in Chennai.

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