Indian schools, businesses hit as swine flu toll mounts

By GI Analyst • on August 13, 2009

India’s swine flu death toll on Thursday rose to 20, as thousands of schools, colleges and cinemas shut down in and around the country’s financial capital Mumbai to combat the spread of infection.

The latest victim of the A(H1N1) virus was a 26-year-old woman in the southern city of Bangalore while an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old woman died in the western city of Pune, the Press Trust of India news agency said. (Breitbart)


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