New Delhi: Twenty-four countries have been hit by the H1N1 influenza A virus, but India is still off that map. However, two techies with flu-like symptoms - sore throat, body pain, fever - are under observation in Bangalore.
Both just returned from Chicago and one has been living there for nearly seven years.
They have been quarantined and the samples have been sent to Pune, the results expected in the next 48 hours. Meanwhile, two samples from Hyderabad and one from Chandigarh have tested negative for the flu. The results of one sample from Jalandar are still awaited.
A bio-safety level-III laboratory at the National Institute of Cholera Enteric Diseases in Kolkata is now ready to conduct tests on people affected with Swine flu. The lab can take care of cases from eastern India in case of a community outbreak.
FLU WORLD MAP
24 countries worldwide have been hit with the flu. Two more European countries, this time Sweden and Portugal, have confirmed Swine flu cases. Mexico, US, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany and France continue to be affected.
According to World Health Organisation, Mexico has confirmed 942 cases and 29 Deaths. The United States has upped its list of confirmed cases to 642 cases and two deaths.
In Canada, the number stands at 165. Meanwhile, the first case in South America has been confirmed in Colombia. In central America, El Salvador has confirmed two cases and Costa Rica and Guatemala have confirmed one each.
Meanwhile in Europe, Spain has been hardest hit with 73 cases. In the UK, 28 cases have come to light and in Germany nine cases.
France and Italy have confimed five people with the virus while Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden and Poland have reported one case each.
In Asia, Israel has reported four cases, China has reported one and South Korea has two. New Zealand has so far confirmed six cases.
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