LUXEMBOURG: European Union foreign ministers were assessing the implications of a deadly strain of swine flu in Mexico at talks Monday to ease public concerns over the outbreak.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said from Athens that EU officials and experts were ``following the situation very closely'' and reassured Europeans that the health emergency was still limited to the North American continent.The EU's Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou was to brief the EU's 27 foreign ministers here on what the EU could do to coordinate preventative measures against the flu, which is suspected in more than 100 deaths in Mexico. ``There need to be maximum European coordination,'' said British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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