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Hyderabad, July 19 (IANS) The number of swine flu cases in Hyderabad has risen to 39 after two more people Sunday tested positive for the Influenza A(H1N1).
The two patients - a physician from Riyadh and a software engineer from Malaysia - have been quarantined at Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre to deal with swine flu cases.

Doctors said the two had landed in the city last week with swine flu symptoms. Their samples were sent to National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi.

This has taken to 39 the city’s swine flu tally since May 16, when India’s first case was reported here. Of them, 30 have been treated and discharged from hospital, state authorities said.

Meanwhile, the efforts of health authorities and doctors at the Chest Hospital have helped in restoring normalcy in the city’s IT sector, after panic last week when a software engineer returned from the US with swine flu and spread the virus to eight IT employees of three different companies.

The scare led to internet search giant Google shutting down one of its offices for two days (July 14 and 15). It resorted to the move after one of its contractual workers was tested positive.

The company asked other employees to undergo the tests at Chest Hospital but the health authorities termed the company’s action as “hyperactive”.

K. Subhakar, coordinator of swine flu nodal centre, said 10 software engineers who were suspected to have swine flu symptoms were tested negative.

About 2,000 international passengers arriving at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here everyday are undergoing compulsory screening for swine flu.