India has not yet stopped swine flu tests and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has also been equipped to conduct tests for influenza A (H1N1), a senior health ministry official said Thursday.
“We have not stopped the H1N1 testing as yet. Apart from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, two other institutes including AIIMS have been equipped to carry tests too,” Health Secretary Naresh Dayal said on the sidelines of an event here.
The other institute is the Patel Chest institute in the capital. So far the Delhi-based NICD and the National Institute of Virology, Pune, have been testing H1N1 samples.
Dayal said the mass testing is not over yet but in near future it will be stopped.
India has so far reported nearly 500 cases of swine flu.
“We have all the facilities ready to handle the disease. But we are yet to get any sample to test for the H1N1 virus,” AIIMS medical director D.K. Sharma told IANS.