There seems to be no reprieve for the people from the deadly swine flu. Thirteen more persons succumbed to the disease on Thursday taking the toll to 2,097 while the number of those affected by the H1N1 virus touched 34,351 since January. The Union Health Ministry said that the toll has increased to 434 in Gujarat, which has reported a total of 6,535 cases of the disease since January. Rajasthan has seen 423 casualties with 6,618 persons so far affected by the H1N1 virus in the desert state.
The toll in Maharashtra has risen to 422 with the State reporting 4,670 cases of swine flu while Madhya Pradesh has seen 305 swine flu deaths. The number of cases registered in Madhya Pradesh is 2,213. Karnataka has recorded 85 swine flu deaths with the number of those affected in the state now touching 2,813.
Seventy-seven persons in Telangana have succumbed to the disease while 53 people each have died in Punjab and Haryana. The toll in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 19 while Uttarakhand has reported 12 casualties so far. West Bengal has seen 26 swine flu deaths while, in Uttar Pradesh, 38 people have died due to the disease.
In Delhi, 12 people have died while 4,245 have been inflicted with the disease. Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh have registered 22 swine flu deaths each. The death toll has climbed to 23 and 14 in Himachal Pradesh and Kerala respectively, as per the Ministry’s data.