merisarkar news service
New Delhi, January 04, 2010
Four more patients have died in the country on Monday due to infection of deadly H1N1 virus. Two deaths have been reported from the worst affected state Maharashtra and one each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
The report of three earlier deaths have been received from state health authorities - two from Maharashtra and one from Punjab and all put together you reach close to thousand deaths in the country because of this pandemic. 989 laboratory confirmed deaths so far.
As expected Maharashtra is still the worst affected since the disease first struck in the country - 275 deaths till date.
Karnataka had, in past, been the second worst affected state After Maharashtra. However, it's been replaced surprisingly not by the then third worst affected state Gujarat but by Rajasthan with 151 deaths so far.
Karnatka accounts for the third highest number of deaths due to Swine Flu - 133 till today. Gujarat is the next with 126 deaths so far.
72 deaths have been reported from national capital Delhi and 52 from Andhra Pradesh.
Punjab and Haryana both account for 34 deaths each. Kerala accounts for 32 deaths.
Surprisingly, only 15 deaths have been reported so far from India's largest state Uttar Pradesh due to Swine Flu.
Till date samples of more than 1,14,000 (one lakh fourteen thousand) people have been tested in the country's laboratories and 23 per cent of them have been found positive.
Almost one in every four person who was tested had been found infected with the disease and most of them are indigenous cases.
On Monday 115 new cases have been confirmed after testing and all of them are indigenous.
