No reports of suspected swine flu in India: WHO

NEW DELHI: India has not reported any suspected case of deadly swine flu so far and the country has "tremendous capacity" to deal with the situation in the event of an outbreak of the influenza, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.

"India has not reported any case of swine flu. For that matter, none of the South East Asian countries have reported any suspected case," Dr J P Narain, Director, Communicable Diseases, WHO, South-East Asia region, said.

"They (India) have tremendous capacity to deal with any kind of situation and it is very much in the forefront of prepardeness... capacity is very much there... we have absolutely no doubt about that," he told reporters here.

On reports of a suspected swine flu case in Hyderabad, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Deputy Regional Director of WHO, said the laboratory tests of the person who was suspected to have the flu tested negative.