Unusually the swine flu, which is caused by H1N1 virus has surfaced in summer this year and has claimed 2 lives in Hyderabad. According to district health officials, a 50-year-old woman from Jeedimetla who was treated and discharged from Gandhi Hospital for fever on April 2 complained of breathlessness on Tuesday morning and died while being shifted to a nearby hospital.

In another incident, a woman aged around 40 years and a resident of Hyderguda died while undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital on April 2. While she was kept on ventilator support, she died of respiratory failure and breathed her last in the evening, hospital officials informed.