Ten people are undergoing treatment for the flu in the hospital and none of them are in a serious condition, he added.

In Bangalore, authorities confirmed that a 28-year-old man, who had died at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) Sunday, had contracted swine flu.

A resident of Cholanayakanahalli village on the city's outskirts, Siddaraju also tested positive for chikungunya, RGICD director Shashidhar Buggi told IANS.

With his death, the swine flu death in Karnataka has gone up to 15.

Karnataka had registered its first swine flu death Aug 12. Within a fortnight, the state saw 15 deaths.

Nine new swine flu cases were reported in Karnataka Monday. Eight of these were from Bangalore and one from Shimoga.

Twenty-seven people in Bangalore, five in Belgaum, one each in Mysore and Shimoga and two in Mangalore are undergoing treatment for swine flu virus.

With the two deaths, the total death toll has jumped to 66 in the country. On Monday, the country reported 137 fresh swine flu positive cases, pushing the total number of infected people to 2,909.