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First swine flu death in Punjab
Anupam Bhagria/TNS

Ludhiana, April 20
Vijay Kumar from Nangal, who was being treated for swine flu at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here, died today. This is the first such casualty in the state this year.

Dr Deepak Bhatia, nodal officer, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, said his relatives and friends who had tended him during sickness were being given "prophylactic treatment".

Sources said there was no cause for alarm as the authorities had enough stocks of medicine to treat swine flu cases.