As with any other employment organisation, diplomats and their families have been given general awareness about the flu, its symptoms and ways to avoid it, but that is the extent of instructions.

The visa sections - where applicants come in large numbers - have also not seen any major sanitisation or precautionary measures.

However, the travel advisories of the major embassies have a separate section on H1N1 influenza - usually listing emergency numbers and the Indian government's measures to tackle the problems.

Meanwhile, the diplomatic social life has continued as before, the affect being more of summer heat and vacations.

The embassy schools have reopened, and none of them has reported any cases of swine flu so far.