Japanese visitor in Punjab has swine flu
July 25th, 2009 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANSLudhiana, July 25 (IANS) A Japanese national who arrived here this week for a conference has become the first confirmed swine flu patient in this industrial city of Punjab, health officials said Saturday.
Three other foreigners, two from Japan and one from Bangkok, Thailand, were also kept under observation as they had arrived here with the patient.
The Japanese national arrived here after landing at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi international airport. His infection was confirmed by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in New Delhi.
He was immediately admitted to the Christian Medical College and Hospital here where he is being kept in isolation.
He and others were staying at a five-star hotel here and had previously been quarantined by health officials who were keeping a close watch on them.
Punjab has reported over a dozen swine flu cases, most of them students from a school in Jalandhar city, 150 km from Chandigarh, who had returned from a trip to NASA in the US.
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