New Delhi, July 23 - Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia Thursday asked parents not to send their children to school if they show symptoms of swine flu, but at the same time advised students that there was no need for panic.

On a visit to St. Thomas School, where 11 students were diagnosed with influenza A (H1N1), Walia said the government is fully prepared to treat swine flu in case there is an outbreak.

'Swine flu has not taken a virulent form and there is no need to worry about the disease. It is curable and can be controlled,' Walia said.

Of the 11 students of the school who were diagnosed with the virus, six have been fully cured, while the rest are being treated in the Ram Manohar Lohia, Bhimrao Ambedkar and Loknayak Jai Prakash hospitals.