New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) At least two people died due to swine flu Monday taking the countrywide toll to 880, health authorities said, adding that 124 new cases have taken the infection tally to 25,236.
The two deaths were reported from Maharashtra and Assam. With this, the casualty figure has reached 257 in Maharashtra. Assam reported its first death.

Besides, the country reported 124 cases of new infections of the pandemic virus. Of the total new cases, Delhi reported 68. While 17 cases were reported from Gujarat, 12 were from Haryana.

In the national capital, there were no fresh deaths due to swine flu but at least 68 more people were infected with the contagious virus Monday, authorities said.

“We have reports of 68 fresh cases of swine flu of which 30 were children,” Anjana Prakash, deputy nodal officer in charge of swine flu in Delhi, told IANS.

With these, the number of infections in the capital has reached around 9,200. Of these, over 55 percent are children.