* Japanese national tests positive for H1N1* 3 marked as contacts kept in isolation A Japanese national visiting the city as part of a business delegation tested positive for swine flu on Friday and has been quarantined in the Christian Medical College and Hospital here. The National Institute of Communicable Disease,New Delhi,confirmed the report as the first case of swine flu in the city. 45-year-old Mura Kawa was accompanied by three other people in the delegation two of them from Japan and one from Bangkok,Thailand. Dr Deepak Bhatia,Nodal Officer for swine flu in the state,said the health authorities in New Delhi had taken the throat swab of the Japanese national and the reports came out to be positive for swine flu. The delegation had arrived in the city on Thursday and was staying at Hotel Park Plaza. They were scheduled to return to Delhi by a flight from Chandigarh,but were quarantined in the city by the rapid response team which tackles swine flu cases,Bhatia said. The other three accompanying the patient have been taken as contacts and are also going to be kept in isolated wards, he added. It is learnt that the patient and his colleagues were taken to the Christian Medical College and Hospital instead of the local Civil Hospital,where the health department has a swine flu ward,on the orders of Deputy Commissioner who asked the authorities to provide good medical care to them. The decision was taken in the wake of unhygienic conditions in the civil hospital,a source revealed to The Indian Express. Dr Bhatia said all the contacts would be traced and the necessary medication would be provided to them so that the infection does not transmit further. As many as 23 confirmed cases of swine flu have been reported in the state so far.
