Government of India Ministry of health and Family Welfare Influenza A [H1N1] 7 August 2009

Status as on: Dated 7th August, 2009

As on 31st July 2009 World health Organization has reported 162380 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 and 1154 deaths.

Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 International airports. 47,090 passengers have been screened on 6.8.2009 of which 33,436 passengers were from affected countries. 224 doctors and 151 paramedics are manning 81 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 44, 35,129 passengers have been screened.

Ninety Six laboratory confirmed cases have been reported today: Delhi (12), Gurgaon (6) Pune (37), Mumbai (16), Bangalore (10), Mangalore (3) Hyderabad (4), Chennai (4), Kolkata (3), and Calicut (1)

All of the 12 cases [13/M, 25/M, 21/M, 23/F, 21/F, 52/M, 2/M, 28/M, 57/M, 62/F, 10/F, 6/M] in Delhi are contact cases.

In Gurgaon, out of the six cases, one [33/M] has a foreign travel history from Singapore by Jet Airways flight 9W 0353 arriving New Delhi on 1st August. He self reported with symptoms on 5th August. The rest five [9/M, 13/F, 15/F, 18/M, 32/M] cases are contact cases.

In Pune, 36 out of the 37 cases are contact cases. The 37th case [6/M] has a travel history to Thailand in the last week.

In Mumbai one 12 year old female and her 14 year old sister travelled from USA by Flight BA 139 reaching Mumbai on 5th August and were quarantined at the identified health facility. Rest 14 cases are contact cases.

In Bangalore all 10 cases are contact cases. In Mangalore out of three cases two of them have travel history to Malaysia and the other case is a contact of them.

In Hyderabad, three of the four cases reported have foreign travel history. A 34 year old male travelled from USA by Emirates Flight EK 365 reaching Hyderabad on 2nd August. He reported with symptoms on 5th August. Another 23 year old male returned from Bangkok on 3rd August and he reported with symptoms on 5th August. The third case [23/M] returned from Malaysia via Bangkok by Thai Airlines flight TG 389 reaching Hyderabad on 3rd August. He reported with symptoms on 5th August. The fourth case [21/F] is a contact case.

Of the 4 cases in Chennai one [23/M] is a contact case. Two [47/M, 9/M] of the other three cases are from a family who travelled from USA by Singapore Airlines SQ 528 reaching Chennai on 4th August and was quarantined at the identified health facility. The fourth case [29/M] travelled from UK by Air India AI 130/31 reaching Chennai on 2nd August who developed symptoms and was admitted on 5th August.


Of the three cases in Kolkata, two cases [6/F, 27/M] do not have any travel history. The third case [22/M] is a Japanese National who travelled from Delhi by Thai Airways reaching Delhi on 31st July and travelled further to Kolkata by train. He reported with symptoms on 4th August and has been admitted in the identified health facility.

The lone case [27/M] in Calicut travelled from Dubai by Emirates flight EK 562 reaching Calicut on 4th August and self reported on 5th August.

3223 persons have been tested so far out of which 711 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. 628 out of the 3223 persons have been identified through entry screening 600 through contact tracing and the rest were self reported.

Of the 711 positive cases, 511 have been discharged. One case has died. Rest of them remain admitted to the identified health facility.

The situation is being monitored.