Baburao Mane, a 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor in Pune, and four-year-old Sanjay Balakrishnan in Chennai died of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus early Monday. Sanjay Tilekar, a pharmacist succumbed to swine flu in Pune Monday evening.

The new cases reported in Pune are indigenous, the ministry said in a statement. In Mumbai out of the 22 cases, only one has a travel history to Austria. The six cases in Panchgani in Maharashtra are school contacts. In Delhi, out of 14 cases, only four have travel history. One case each from Noida and Gurgaon are indigenous cases. In Ajmer, the patient had returned from Dubai. In Mangalore, out of the three cases, one had returned from Britain.

The health minister said they have also decided to continue monitoring and screening at the 22 international airports in the country as they have been able to detect swine flu cases at the airport.

He said over 4.5 million people were screened at the airports, of whom 635 were found to be positive. 'We will not discontinue it (screening). All the international airports will soon have thermal scanners as the detection rate through them has gone up from five percent to 20 percent now,' he said.

He said the country has 10 million Tamiflu capsules of which his ministry has distributed nearly 7.5 million to states.

'In today's meeting, we have decided to stockpile another 20 million. We have currently 27,000 testing kits and today we ordered 22 thousand more such test kits. Simultaneously, the ICMR is examining the possibility of developing low-cost testing kits, which could then be deployed throughout the country,' he added.

Talking about a vaccine for swine flu, Azad said India will import the vaccine from any country that develops it first. 'Three Indian companies are working to develop the swine flu vaccine. Should any country develop the vaccine first, we will import it for our doctors, paramedics staff and health workers who have close contact with swine flu patients,' he added.

Meanwhile, a central team is stationed at Pune to assess the situation and help in tackling the spread of the infection.

The Maharashtra government also decided to shut down schools, colleges and also cinema halls and shopping malls for three to seven days in the Pune-Pimpri-Chinchwad belt spread over 200 sq km, where about 3.5 million people live.