Three people tested positive for swine flu in Mumbai on Thursday taking the total count of H1N1 patients in the city to 11.
The three patients include a 26-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, both of whom are admitted to a private hospital.
“They have both been administered Tamiflu and are stable. We are trying to find out more about them to survey their locality and examine their contacts as well,” said Dr Mangala Gomare, deputy executive health officer, BMC.
Dr Gomare added that the third patient, who tested positive, is a 19-year old man from Santa Cruz, who is related to a 23-year old patient who had tested positive for the virus on Monday.
Earlier, a Mulund-based family of three — a six-year-old boy, his 37-year-old father and 57-year-old grandmother, and two persons in their 50s, tested positive for swine flu.
On Monday, 34-year-old man died of the H1N1 virus at Nashik Civil Hospital. Since January 12 swine flu patients have died, of which 11 were from the Pune district. The last death in Pune was reported on Tuesday.
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Water purifiers in schools soon
Age correspondent
Mumbai, April 5
The state has announced that water purifiers will be installed in all civic schools in Mumbai this financial year.
Congress and NCP MLCs had raised the issue of lack of facilities in the legislative council on Wednesday, citing a CRY report that said 40 per cent civic schools don’t have playgrounds, computers, libraries, water purification system, toilets, adequate furniture, quality food and school buses.
The state denied that the schools did not have libraries, toilets and adequate furniture, and added that most civic schools are equipped with computers and trained teachers for computer education. The state also said that as there are civic schools within a one-kilometre distance of almost every residence, hence, these schools don’t have a bus service.
In a written reply, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan added, “By 2012-13, all civic schools will have water purifiers.”