While the Pune, authorities had ordered three worst-affected schools shut for a week, the students of St. Peters School in Panchgani were isolated when they displayed signs of recovery.

In the past one week, the swine-flu spread to more schools in Pune. They are: New India School (7 students hit), Bal Shikshan Mandir (7), Springdale High School (2), and one each in New English School, Vivekanand High School and Annasaheb Patil Vidyalaya (1).

The H1N1 virus spread quickly after one affected student returned from a trip to the US early July. His cousin contracted it and spread it among other students of Seva Sadan High School.

Ironically, last Tuesday, state Health Minister Rajendra Shingne had claimed that the virus was well under control in the state and there was 'no cause for panic'.

While all the victims in Pune have been quarantined in the Naidu Hospital here, the Mumbai victims are kept in quarantine at the Kasturba Hospital.

Unlike Pune, all the victims in Mumbai are adults who have a history of recent travel to and from major swine flu affected countries in Europe, South America and the US.