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Swine Flu Outbreak: Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli Sees A Spike In Cases, Death Rate

At a time when COVID-19 cases across Maharashtra, including Mumbai, has been on the rise, the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has reported two swine flu deaths in a week.

Swine Flu Outbreak: Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli Sees A Spike In Cases, Death Rate
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At a time when COVID-19 cases across Maharashtra, including Mumbai, has been on the rise, the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has reported two swine flu deaths in a week.

Reports further revealed that the deceased were 85-year-old man from Dombivli and a 51-year-old woman from Kalyan.

Both the patients were comorbid and were seeking treatment in a hospital. The swine flu symptoms are similar to COVID-19. They were earlier tested for coronavirus. Later, they recovered from COVID and their tests were negative, civic officials stated.

In the view of rising cases and deaths, the KDMC health department has appealed to the residents of Kalyan and Dombivli to follow all the necessary norms like self-isolation, wearing masks, avoiding crowded places, early medication and testing in case of any swine flu or COVID-like symptoms.

Meanwhile, the number of H1N1 cases have reached 48 since June. However, the health department of KDMC claimed that the figures are likely to increase in the coming days. Out of the 48 cases of swine flu, 19 are active cases.

Apart from that, it is pertinent to note that in the last one month, a spike in the number of swine flu cases was witnessed in Thane city. Among the 300 active cases recorded in Thane district, over 200 are from Thane city.

On the other hand, Thane city reported 227 cases of swine flu from July 1 to August 10. Meanwhile, 118 patients with swine flu were hospitalised in Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) jurisdiction.

These 118 are active cases. They are being provided the necessary treatment. Four deaths have occurred while 105 patients have been discharged in the last 40 days within the TMC jurisdiction.

Besides, for those unversed, in mid-July we started providing free testing for swine flu at our health centres across the city.

Thane district has witnessed 300 swine flu cases and six deaths so far.

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