The Gujarat health department in a statement here said there are currently a total of 13 positive cases of swine flu in Gujarat and another 84 are suspected to be carrying the H1N1 virus.

Of the confirmed cases, 11 are being treated at the civil hospital in Ahmedabad and two others are admitted at the government run SSG Hospital in Vadodara.

The state has witnessed two swine flu deaths during the past one week, with an NRI, Pravin Patel, dying at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Aug 9 and a seven-year-old girl, Arya Burade, dying at the government SSG Hospital Aug 11.

The Gujarat government has urged the union health ministry to send a total of 250 Reagent medical kits and more Tamiflu tablets for testing and treatment of the patients respectively.