Tackling the flu

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said he will not be available for any more sound bytes on television channels. After an hour-long press conference on the swine flu, when a TV reporter asked him for a sound byte, Azad said he would be left with no time to tackle the crisis if he kept meeting television channels. “The other day when I decided to speak to them it took me 10 hours,” he said, no doubt exaggerating a bit.