Some 500 reported cases of swine flu in Antananarivo

Swine flu is continuously spreading in the capital city as well as throughout some regions of the Great Isle. The healthcare ministry of health is, for the time being, rather talking of the pandemic’s « control phase » than of a « mastering phase ».  

On the 482 recorded cases, a couple of ones is located in the region of Toamasina (East), so is another couple in Antsiranana (North) while that only one case has been identified in Antsohihy (West). More than 480 cases have been confirmed thus for Antananarivos and its immediate surroundings. Nearly all of the capital city’s districts are now hit. Most of the patients have completed travels abroad according to a physician. 

Although Tamiflu, drug used for the treatment of the H1N1 flu, withered from some of Antananarivo city drugstores’ shelves, the healthcare ministry was keen on reiterating that the available stock is sufficient to face up to the pandemic. Some 9000 boxes of Tamiflu have been sent in the island’s different regions in order to tackle any eventual issue. 

Apart from patients, some thousands of people regularly in contact with them also followed the necessary treatment to restrict the spread of the sickness. Buildings and Vehicles were, besides, disinfected.