Three Pune deaths due to viral pneumonia; not swine flu

Three patients, who were suspected to have died of swine flu in the city, have tested negative for the virus, officials here said.  District Collector Chandrakant Dalvi said the three - Gautam Shelar, Bharati Goyal and Swabhiman Kamble - died of viral pneumonia and severe acute respiratory syndrome and not due to swine flu.  

Their reports of throat swabs showed that they were not suffering from swine flu, he said yesterday.  With the test reports of the three coming negative, only 12 people have died of swine flu in Pune, Dalvi clarified.

Shelar died on August 12 and Goyal on Thursday. Eight-month-old boy Kamble died late on Thursday night in Sahyadri hospital.