Besides the two women, three others including a youth in Pune and two women in Karanataka, succumbed to the virus. While Roopali Jore, 28, died on Friday night at a private hospital in Pune where she was kept on a ventilator, Sunil Kumbhar, 20, died at Sassoon hospital today evening, health officials said.
Kumbhar had been admitted in a critical condition, with symptoms of H1N1 virus, at the government hospital today morning, they said. Meanwhile, two more persons, including a nine-year-old girl, have succumbed to the deadly virus in Karnataka, pushing up the pandemic toll in the southern state to 26.
Close on the heels of a three-year old boy dying of the virus in Bijapur, a nine-year-old girl fell victim to the H1N1 influenza at Manipal Hospital here on August 26, health officials said.
The other victim, a 30-year-old woman, succumbed to the virus at Bapuji Hospital in Davangere on August 27. Vaishali Kalal, 23, died of the virus at a private hospital in Ahmedabad today morning, taking the toll in the state to eight. Kalal was on ventilator since Friday, health officials said.