World stocks down ahead of key Fed statement

LONDON: World markets fell sharply Tuesday as further signs of a slowdown in China’s economy emerged ahead of an eagerly awaited policy statement from the U.

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WHO says swine flu pandemic is over

GENEVA: The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines.

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WHO may declare ending swine flu alert over

GENEVA: The World Health Organization says an expert panel may recommend Tuesday that the global body declare the swine flu pandemic officially over.

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WHO:Too Early To Declare Swine Flu Peak Over

TrendPK.com WHO:Too Early To Declare Swine Flu Peak Over :GENEVA: It is too early to say that the swine flu pandemic has peaked in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation’s emergency committee said.
“The Committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world [...]

Duncan Keith Plays On Without His Pal

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9 Hajj Swine Flu Cases so far: Saudi Minister

RIYADH: 9 Hajj Swine Flu Cases so far: Saudi Minister, Nine people out of more than half a million who have arrived for the annual hajj pilgrimage have been diagnosed with swine flu, Saudi Health Minister Dr Abdullah al-Rabeeah said on Wednesday.

‘The situation from the point of health, we are very happy. Out of the 600,000 arriving so far, we have only seen nine suspected cases of A(H1N1), and only two of those are in the hospital.

‘The rest were treated and they were discharged,’ he said.

Rabeeah said that altogether 70 people had died in the kingdom this year from swine flu, none of them pilgrims.

The fatalities figure is up from 62 reported at the beginning of November, and the total number of proven cases is about 7,000, the minister said.

Concern has mounted about the possibility of a major outbreak of the disease during the hajj, when more than three million Muslims converge on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in western Saudi Arabia in the second half of November.

The Riyadh government has deployed about 20,000 health workers to deal with flu and other health emergencies among pilgrims, Rabeeah said.

More than 6,000 deaths from A(H1N1) flu had been reported worldwide as of November 1, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Three More Swine Flu Deaths Confirmed By Saudi Govt

ISLAMABAD: An 11-year-old Saudi girl has become one of the latest victim of swine flu after health officials announced a further three deaths in the kingdom.

A total number of 14 people have died from the H1N1 virus in Saudi Arabia to date, the Ministry of Health confirmed, a private news channel reported.

The child was diagnosed with swine flu and died, meanwhile on the same day a 28-year-old Saudi woman also died from the virus.

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Swine Flu In India 14 Killed

NEW DELHI: The death toll from Influenza A (H1N1) virus, or swine flu, rose to 14 with three deaths being reported from Maharashtra, two in Pune and one in Nashik.

Rupesh Gangurde, a doctor at the Nashik Civil Hospital, died, the city’s first and the nation’s 14th victim from the swine flu virus.

Shrawani Deshpande (29) was India’s 13th swine flu victim. She too died at Pune’s government-run Sassoon General Hospital.

Earlier, a 35-year-old man succumbed to the swine flu virus at the Sassoon Hospital.

The total number of swine flu casualties in Maharashtra has now gone up to 10.

Two more people have died of swine flu in Gujarat and one each in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Meanwhile, with death toll continuing to mount the authorities have stepped up efforts to curb the spread of the contagious virus.

The total number of swine flu casualties in Maharashtra has now gone up to 10.

Two more people have died of swine flu in Gujarat and one each in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Currently, there are five critical patients at Pune’s Sassoon Hospital and another two critical patients in a Mumbai hospital.