India tightens measures to check swine flu

As swine flu spreads across the country, India's health ministry on Wednesday asked its external affairs counterpart to request affected countries to screen all out-bound passengers to India in order to check the export of the deadly virus. The deadly virus has infected the spread of H1N1 flu in Australia, Britain, Chile, Japan and Spain has nudged the world closer to a pandemic, the World Health Organisation said on June 02, as 26,500 people in 73 countries.