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H1N1 claims first life in Kolkata, death toll reaches 3 Bengal

| | May 07, 2017, at 06:26 am
Kolkata, May 6 (IBNS): The death toll from swine flu in West Bengal has risen to three as a 56-year-old man from Kolkata reportedly died of H1N1 influenza at a city hospital on Friday.

According to reports, Arup Halder, a resident of city's Ekbalpore area, was tested positive for swine flu (H1N1) few days ago and he died at the privately-run Woodland Hospital in south Kolkata's Alipore area on Friday night.

Earlier last week, a 28-year-old woman and a minor girl from West Bengal's Nadia district died of swine flu in two private hospitals in Kolkata.

"We are looking into the matter and all privately-run hospitals in Kolkata and West Bengal have been directed to inform the government about swine flu cases," a senior official of state's health department told IBNS.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)   

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