Bhopal, Aug 26 - A two-year-old girl here has tested positive for swine flu, becoming the first confirmed case in the city, but doctors Wednesday said she recovered before the test result was received, 12 days after the sample was sent.

Doctors at Gandhi Medical College (GMC) here said Ananya Shrivastava had already recuperated completely and neither her parents nor other relatives had shown any signs of the influenza H1N1 infection.

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) report on Ananya was received at the Swine Flu Control Room here late Tuesday. She is the first patient to have tested positive for the virus in Bhopal and the third in Madhya Pradesh. In all cases, the patients had recuperated before the reports came in.

'My child is now keeping well and is in good health,' said V.K. Shrivastava, Ananya's father. 'She was administered medicines for normal fever and cold and has improved without medicines prescribed for swine flu.'

Doctors at the State Swine Flu Control Room said the girl was admitted to GMC Aug 13 with flu-like symptoms. Her samples were sent for tests the same day and the result was received Tuesday evening, after 12 days.