New Delhi, Aug 25 - The Delhi government Tuesday approved of three private pathological laboratories in the city for testing samples for the swine flu virus, said Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia here Tuesday.

'Two high-level committees were constituted by the government for checking and verifying the standards/parameters for private labs for testing H1N1 Virus. After checking and verifying the parameters set for private labs, the committees recommended empanelment of the three private laboratories,' Walia said.

The three labs that have been given a go-ahead are Dr.Lal's Lab, Dr. Naveen Dang's Lab and Auroprobe Lab.

'Of the pending reports, 270 reports were cleared today (Tuesday) wherein 41 reported positive.