However, authorities have requested people not to panic, saying the government was taking measures to check the spread of the disease.

Principal Secretary (Health) I.R. Perumal said the present situation did not warrant holidays for schools.

'However, children with swine flu like symptoms should not come to school and parents need to take such children to hospitals and do proper health checking,' Perumal told IANS.

The government has decided to establish a control room and start a helpline - 1056 - to provide details and measures to check the spread of H1N1 virus from Tuesday.

Anxious people with flu symptoms continued to throng designated city hospitals for a check up.

'Around 350 people came to check themselves of flu related symptoms Monday. We've collected the nasal and throat swabs of 60 people,' said Shashidhar Buggi, director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases.

There have been 92 confirmed H1N1 cases in Karnataka.