Health authorities in Goa on Thursday directed the closure of city-based People’s High School for one week till September 30, following two confirmed and three suspected cases of H1N1 among its students.

The swine flu claimed its first victim from Goa when a woman from Canacona succumed to the H1N1 virus.

A woman who has been afflicted with swine flu is struggling for life at a private hospital in Margao for the last few days.

Just days after the first death due to swine flu recorded in the State, there are questions as to whether or not Goa gets tagged with the death.

The first case of swine flu death was recorded in the state on Sunday after a 30-year-old man from neighbouring Karnataka state died on Friday.

The Goa government will not be invoking the epidemic act to contain the spread of swine flu in the state during the coming tourist season beginning October.

The Goa government along with the rest of India and the media has gone overboard in the 'fight' against swine flu, bordering on mass hysteria.

The Chief Minister Digambar Kamat called upon citizens to co-operate with the state authorities in combating the disease and preventing casualties.

With India recording 6 deaths due to the H1N1 virus and an increase in secondary infections, state authorities have started the process of setting up full-fledged ward to treat swine flu victims at the Goa Medical College.

India today recorded its fourth death related to swine flu and is now seeing an explosion of secondary cases of H1N1 infection - people who haven't travelled to an infected country but may have got the virus from an infected individual.