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A four-and-a half-year-old boy died of swine flu in Chennai, the provincial capital of India's southern Tamil Nadu on Monday. Sanjay Balakrishnan, a UKG student was admitted in critical condition on Friday and tested positive to swine flu on Saturday. Doctors said that their best efforts were insufficient to safe the life of Sanjay. With this demise, the total number of deaths due to H1N1 has gone up to six. The last swine flu death was that of a 35-year-old doctor in western Pune. The first swine flu death was reported on August 3 with 14-year-old Rida Shaikh succumbing to the disease. India confirmed 82 new confirmed swine flu cases on Sunday, taking the total number of people affected with this virus to 864. India recorded its first H1N1 case in the southern city of Hyderabad in May and since then the virus has spread across the country with dozens of cases from Pune city itself, health department officials said. The H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, emerged in April in the United States and Mexico, and has spread internationally.
