Two suspected patients of Swine flu, who arrived here from Spain and the US, have been kept under observation, the government Sassoon hospital authorities said today.
The suspected cases are of two young males aged 37 and 22 who were referred to the Sassoon authorities by a private hospital where they had gone for treatment complaining of sore throat yesterday, Dr Arun Jamkar, dean, Sassoon hospital told PTI.
The patients were moved today to isolation ward of municipal Naidu hospital and their blood samples sent to the city based National Institute of Virology (NIV), Dr Jamkar said, adding that report of the test for H1N1 virus was expected by tomorow.
Medical personnel were maintaining a surveillance at Pune airport, it was stated.
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