Test results received here on Monday from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in New Delhi confirmed that 11 persons had tested positive for the A(H1N1) influenza. They include two doctors, health officials said. These cases add to the four declared on Sunday.
Three men, a woman doctor, six girls and a boy were declared flu positive by health officials on Monday.
The Coimbatore Medical College Hospitals sent for tests throat swabs of seven persons – three women, including a doctor, two men and two boys.
Collector P. Umanath told reporters that all the patients were stable and asked people not to believe rumours that two persons had succumbed to the flu.
“There is no need to panic,” he said after inaugurating an orientation meeting at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for government and private doctors on combating and preventing the flu.
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