India - H1N1 starting to spread in India

Lack of preparedness, no uniform response make virus a big threat.

One problem for health official is the paucity of testing centres.

For Instance Chenai, India fifth largest city, reportly has just ONE clinc with proper facilities.

New Delhi has 14, or about one for every million people.

Parents are anxious and wanted to avoid any panic. Given the current magnitude of the spread of the infection and the fact that the current virs is fairly mild, closure of educational institution on account of any student or staff member falling ill with flu-like symtoms is not recommended-said the Indian Ministry advised.

Malaysia - 6 New Death push up Malaysia Toll

The number of infection has also spiralled to 2253 after 270 new cases were confirmed since Monday- Health Ministry Director.

Singapore - Six more H1N1 patients were admitted to intensive care units (ICU) on Tuesday.

The oldest is a 69-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension and renal failure and the youngest, a 9-year-old boy with a medical history of epilepsy and blood disorder Thalassemia Minor.
There are currently 75 patients hospitalised with H1N1 infection - nine of them are in ICUs.