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7 students test positive for swine flu, total up to 30

16 Jun 2009, 0053 hrs IST, I P Singh, TNN

JALANDHAR: Seven more students of a local school, who have returned from a trip to Nasa in US on Saturday, have tested positive for swine flu, taking the number of confirmed cases in Jalandhar district to eight. District health authorities quarantined two more students and sent their throat swabs to New Delhi on Monday. ( Watch )
``Out of the eight samples sent, seven have tested positive,'' deputy commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu and civil surgeon S S Walia said on Monday.
The health authorities pressed the panic button after a student-member of the 34-member contingent, which included three teachers, tested positive on his return on Saturday. He was quarantined after he reported symptoms of the flu. The health department then put all the other students and teachers who went on the Nasa trip on tests and found eight kids with flu-like symptoms.
A team of four doctors from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi, reached Jalandhar on Monday to examine the students lodged in an isolation ward of the civil hospital.
As many as seven teams of doctors have been constituted to examine all those who came in contact with these students while on their return trip. Out of the eight people who have been identified, six are from Punjab and residents of Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Ropar and Bathinda. ``We have asked our civil surgeons to track them and keep them under observation,'' said Punjab government's principal A S Talwar, who is leading a rapid response team set up by the administration.
The doctors, he added, had examined all 196 people who came in contact with this group and found them to be normal and healthy.
A special Helpline with toll free number 1075 has been installed in Jalandhar for information and also reporting suspected cases.

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