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New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Six more swine flu deaths were reported in India, taking the number of deaths from influenza A (H1N1) to 60, the health ministry said here Sunday.
While five deaths were reported from Maharashtra, one death was reported from Gujarat. With these deaths, Maharashtra tops with 36 casualties.

“The cumulative laboratory confirmed deaths reported by the states as on Aug 23, 2009, are 60 - Maharashtra (36), Karnataka (12), Gujarat (6), Tamil Nadu (3), Delhi (2) and Kerala (1),” the health ministry said.

Though it did not gave details of the people who died in Maharashtra, in Gujarat a 48-year-old man died of the virus in Vadodara Sunday, becoming the sixth victim of swine flu in the state, officials said.

Hasmukh Hingu, a resident of Bharuch town in southern Gujarat, was admitted to the government-run SSG Hospital here Thursday with a “respiratory distress syndrome” and had been put on the ventilator, a senior resident of the hospital said. He died Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, the country also reported 103 swine flu positive cases, pushing the total number of infected people to 2,772.

Delhi topped the list with 44 new cases. Similarly Karnataka reported 21, Tamil Nadu 20, Maharashtra 23, West Bengal five, Kerala eight, Goa three, Haryana and Rajasthan two each and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh one each.

Most of these infections are indigenous.

In Delhi, a 48-year-old man, suspected to be suffering from influenza A (H1N1) virus, has died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.

Though doctors earlier said that the man reported severe swine flu symptoms and was admitted immediately, his samples turned out negative.

“The person who died in our hospital was found negative for H1N1. There is no fresh death related to the virus,” N.K. Chaturvedi, medical superintendent of the hospital, told IANS.

“There are two more patients in our hospital who are critical,” he added.