A 58-year-old woman died in Gujarat after contracting the H3N2 influenza virus, officials said. She was undergoing treatment at SSG hospital in Vadodara.
With this, India’s death toll due to the H3N2 virus climbed to seven. The first reported H3N2 death in the country was an 82-year-old man in Karnataka’s Hassan district. From January 2 to March 5, 451 cases of the H3N2 virus have been reported in the country, according to data shared by the health ministry on Friday.