Tuesday, July 07, 2009 TORONTO: Canadian health officials have reported three more deaths related to swine flu, bringing the country's total to 36.Dr. Andre Corriveau, Alberta's chief medical health officer, said Monday that a child under 10 and two adults have died after contracting the illness. The child was from Saskatchewan, and the adults from Manitoba and Alberta.Corriveau says all the three people also suffered from other health problems, but he would not elaborate on those illnesses.Canada currently has 8,883 confirmed cases of swine flu, 663 of which have required hospitalization.
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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