According to Sundaram, the patient was brought back to the Government General Hospital Aug 19 and was put on Tamiflu once again but died Thursday night.

Francis is the second victim of swine flu in Tamil Nadu this month after four-year-old Sanjay Balakrishnan died in a city hospital.

Meanwhile, three people who flew in here from abroad have been admitted into the Communicable Diseases Hospital here with swine flu symptoms. While one is a Sri Lankan national, the other two are locals who had returned from Singapore and Dubai.

Friday morning Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said swine flu had claimed 36 lives in the country so far.