Three more test positive in city

Three fresh positive cases of swine flu were reported in the city on Saturday,taking the total number of cases in Chandigarh to 15.

Three fresh positive cases of swine flu were reported in the city on Saturday,taking the total number of cases in Chandigarh to 15. They have been identified as an NRI woman from the UK on a visit to her relatives in Sector 27,a 14-year-old boy from Sector 49,and a Panchkula boy aged 14 from Sector 10,who had recently returned from Hong Kong.

Doctors say that the NRI woman and Panchkula resident are cases of acquired infection from foreign countries,but that of the sector 49 resident is a case of locally acquired infection,as no travel history of him or his immediate family is known.

This appears to be a locally infected case,as there is no overseas travel history of the boy or his family. Only his father had been to Mumbai recently. The infection could have travelled from within the city or from some other city in this case, said a senior health official.

All the three patients have been quarantined at home,and as per the Health department,their condition is now stable and they have been administered Tamiflu doses.

Meanwhile,11 family members of the NRI and four immediate family members of the Sector 49 boy have also been quarantined at home. The UT Health Department has told the Panchkula authorities to quarantine the family of the 14-year-old.

Meanwhile,five more suspected cases surfaced in the city on Saturday,taking the total number of suspected cases in the region to 170.

Test samples of all the five have been collected and sent to the PGI lab. Four of these patients have been quarantined at home, said UT swine flu nodal officer H C Gera.

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