After the terror strikes in Mumbai last year eclipsed Goa's tourist season, the swine flu pandemic could possibly deplete the arrivals in 2009-10. Goa receives nearly two million tourists in an average year, out of which about 400,000 are foreigners.

There are presently seven swine flu patients under quarantine in Goa.

Recently, the state nodal officer for swine flu Rajendra Tamba was transferred to a rural dispensary after he questioned the efficiency and the will of the state health department when it came to handling the swine flu outbreak.