New Delhi, August 09: The deadly swine flu seems to have made a comeback with a vengeance in the country with a whopping 83 deaths due to the disease being reported in the week ending August 8.
Maharashtra reported the maximum number of 51 deaths, 12 were reported from Karnataka and 6 from Andhra Pradesh.
Seven deaths were reported from Gujarat and one each from West Bengal, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.
Till date, samples from 1,54,259 people have been tested for influenza A H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 36,240 (23.4 per cent) of them have been found positive.
All the 942 cases reported during the week are indigenous cases.
–Agencies