Two test positive for swine flu

Two cases of swine flu were confirmed in the city on Saturday.

Two cases of swine flu were confirmed in the city on Saturday. While a 29-year-old resident doctor at the PGI has been admitted in the isolation ward of the hospital (PGI) itself,the other patient,a 50-year-old woman from Sector 11,is being treated at the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH),Sector 16.

The PGI senior resident doctor complained of flu-like symptoms after returning from the UK a few days ago. The woman,meanwhile,had developed the symptoms on returning from Singapore on July 14.

Along with the woman,we have quarantined her husband,daughter and domestic help for seven days. While the trio has been put on Tamiflu,they are yet to show any symptoms of the flu. As for the resident doctor,we have not quarantined anyone else as he directly got himself admitted in the ward after his arrival, said H C Gera,Nodal Officer for swine flu,UT. The two patients had been taken ill yesterday,following which their samples were sent to the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD),Delhi. The reports arrived here late on Saturday evening.

The total count of confirmed cases of swine flu cases in the city now stands at three,with the first case reported a month ago from Gurdaspur where a 19-year-old boy had tested positive for the disease.

Two suspected cases of swine flu were,meanwhile,reported at GMSH today. These include a one-and-a-half-year-old male child from Mohali Phase IX and a 39-year-old man from Sector 20 in Panchkula.

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