A fresh wave of swine flu was reported across the country with one person from Maharashtra succumbing to swine flu, today. With this death, the total number of people who have lost their lives due to this disease has risen to 444 with Karnataka as the most affected, recording 15 cases, Delhi 13 cases, Maharashtra ten and Kerala five.
The total number of people affected by swine flu has reached more than 13, 000 and 49 cases reported during today alone. As of now, more than 70 thousand people have been tested for swine flu of which an alarming 18 percent have been found to be positive. This has been the report even as a none month old baby and a eighty year old woman admitted with swine flu died on Saturday in Maval taluka. 49 fresh cases of swine flu have been reported from across the country, according to official sources.
Due to the sudden spurt of fresh swine flu epidemic in the city, the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival scheduled to be held in the city in December has been postponed. Significantly, this is the first time, in the history of the festival that it has been postponed. Although the festival will be held in the first week of December, the preparation for it starts almost six months earlier.
This festival will be the place where about 35 artists from all over India will perform their best. Since it is the congregation of a large number of people, in the wake of the revival of swine flu, the organizers, after discussion with the District magistrate and Commissioner of the city, decided not to take any risk and hence announced the postponement of the festival.
Swine flu has taken its deadly toll even in U.S. as the White House declared swine flu as a national emergency following the death of over a thousand people due to the deadly H1N1 virus.
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