Kolkata, Aug 11 - The number of swine flu patients in West Bengal rose to 12 with two more cases confirmed Tuesday.

'Two more people tested positive for swine flu today (Tuesday) at the designated Beliaghata Infectious Diseases (ID) hospital. Two other suspected swine flu patients took admission,' the state government's nodal officer for swine flu Tapas Sen told IANS.

Six people - four confirmed and two suspects - are in the hospital now.

Meanwhile, Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi arrived from Delhi along with a six-member team of medical experts and visited the airport and designated hospital for a first hand idea of the facilities for the detection and the treatment of the disease.

They first went to the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport and saw the screening infrastructure for the disease there. Trivedi gave some directives to the medical officers at the airport.

Later, the team went around the designated ward for the diseases at the ID hospital and interacted with the patients, their families and the doctors.