7-year-old dies of swine flu in Pune

A seven-year-old girl died of swine flu in Pune on Tuesday,taking the toll in the viral infection in the city to 32.

Swine flu showed no sign of a let up and took the life of a seven-year-old girl on Tuesday in badly hit Pune,raising the nationwide death count to 103 while over a hundred people tested positive for the virus in various parts of the country.

Priyanka Shimilkar,who was admitted to government-run Sassoon Hospital on August 29,had tested positive for the virus,officials said. The toll in Pune now stands at 32 and in Maharashtra at 54.

Meanwhile,a meeting of Ganesh puja mandals convened by the Pune district administration has decided to avoid use of vermilion in the immersion procession of idols on September 3 keeping in view the possibility of allergic reaction to it.

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The meeting felt that since the flu affected the respiratory system,it would be advisable to avoid substances that could trigger adverse reaction among people.

With 106 fresh cases of flu being detected across the country,Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting on Monday in Delhi to take stock of the situation and reviewed measures being taken to contain the disease. The number of those afflicted by the virus countrywide now stands at 3,987,officials said.

The fatalities in Maharashtra include 10 deaths in Mumbai,eight in Nashik,two in Aurangabad and one each in Dhule and Latur.

As many as 26 flu deaths have taken place in Karnataka,eight in Gujarat,three each in Tamil Nadu,Chhattisgarh and Delhi and two in Uttarakhand and one each in Kerala,Goa,Rajasthan and Haryana.

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