With the death of 10 more people on Monday, the total death toll due to Swine flu has reached 247 even as 228 fresh cases of the viral disease were reported across the nation. With the fresh cases, the number of people infected by the virus has reached 8,153.
Of the total deaths, three were reported from Karnataka on Monday. With this, the toll due to H1N1 contagion climbed to 80 in the state. According to state health officials, the victims were all females, including a one-year-old from Gulbarga. She was admitted on September 15 at a private hospital in Gulbarga and died two days later. The other two were: a 22-year-old woman who died on September 14 and a 35-year-old woman who succumbed to the flu on September 16 at a government hospital in Bangalore. On Monday, 12 more people were confirmed positive for H1N1 in Karnataka. The total number of confirmed swine flu cases in the state has gone up to 899, the officials said.
Elsewhere in the country, seven more deaths were reported on Monday -- three each from Maharashtra and Gujarat and one from Andhra Pradesh. In Gujarat, social worker and leader of Medical Representatives Association Ambadas Shivaratri, (40) succumbed to the flu on Sunday night, hospital sources said. He was admitted to Munot-Sahyadri Hospital in Pune about a fortnight ago.
