Chandigarh, Dec 23: Six more persons, including four from Chandigarh, tested positive for swine flu in the city on Tuesday.
Four cases from Chandigarh included a PGI doctor. Two persons from Punjab—one from Nabha and another from Bathinda, also tested positive for H1N1. The positive cases count has crossed 290 now.
Meanwhile, the UT Health department received a fresh consignment of 12,000 tablets of Tamiflu and 500 bottles of syrup from the Union Health Ministry.
The department officials have also written to the Indian Medical Association, Chandigarh Chapter, for providing a list of private doctors who can prescribe Tamiflu based on the symptoms of the patients without testing their sample.
Last week, the UT health department had declared that the spread of swine flu in the city now falls in the category of “community spread” and more doctors, besides the government ones, were required to prescribe medicines to the increasing rush of patients.
–Agencies