With five more casualties on Tuesday, toll due to swine flu reached 397. Though spread of H1N1 viruses has slowed down following gradual increase in temperature in Gujarat, new cases are still being reported in hospitals across the State.
On Tuesday 40 new cases registered, overall cases of swine flu have gone up to 6226. “Number of new cases has gone down considerably. With summer having set in and temperature rising further, hopefully spread of the disease will be curbed automatically. We are putting efforts to spread awareness across the State to protect people from swine flu,” said a senior official with the State Government’s Health Department.
As per official data, of the total cases of swine flu 5438 people were cured and discharged from hospitals. Of the five death cases reported on Tuesday, one each registered from Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Kutch, Kheda and Gir Somnath districts. As far as new cases are concerned, 12 each reported in Ahmedabad and Surat, five and three fresh cases registered in Rajkot and Vadodara respectively, while eight cases reported in other parts of the State.
As many as 70 new cases have been registered in Ahmedabad alone, followed by 24 and 16 in Surat and Vadodara. Of the nine deaths, two each registered in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Kutch and Vadodara and one in Patan. The State Government claimed that around 1,000 people have been cured and discharged from hospital.
Not only common people, some of the dignitaries were became victims of swine flu that include Speaker of Gujarat Assembly Ganapat Vasava, junior Minister Shanker Chaudhary, Vice-Chancellor and registrar of Gujarat University as well as two IAS officers. According to sources, all of them cured and discharged from hospital. In fact, Vasava is being seen in the House during Budget Session of the Gujarat Assembly.