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2 people quarantined for flu in India

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Source: CCTV.com | 05-13-2009 10:41

Special Report:   World tackles A/H1N1 flu

In India, two passengers have been kept under observation in hospital. The two, who arrived from Spain and the USA, have been quarantined in the isolation ward of Naidu Hospital in Pune, in India's western Maharashtra state.

A suspected swine flu patient who arrived in India from Britain was discharged from a New Delhi hospital on Sunday after testing negative for the virus, a health official said.(AFP/Sam Panthaky)
A suspected swine flu patient who arrived in India from 
Britain was discharged from a New Delhi hospital on 
Sunday after testing negative for the virus, a health 
official said.(AFP/Sam Panthaky)

A senior physician says blood samples from the patients have been sent to the National Institute of Virology for analysis. Meanwhile, in Thailand, the country's Public Health Ministry has confirmed two people have tested positive for the A/H1-N1 flu but have recovered from the virus, and will not transmit the virus to others.

 

Editor:Zhang Yun