Four more people have died of influenza A (H1N1) in India, taking the death toll due to the swine flu pandemic in the country so far to 1210, an official statement said here today.

While no deaths were reported during the day today, information about four deaths that occurred earlier - two in Haryana and one each in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh - was received from the state governments concerned by the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare today,

Of the total swine flu deaths in the country so far, Maharashtra now accounts for 312, while 223 lives have been lost in Gujarat, 176 in Rajasthan, 141 in Karnataka, 93 in Delhi, 52 in Andhra Pradesh, 38 in Punjab, 36 each in Kerala and Haryana, 21 in Madhya Pradesh, 18 in Uttar Pradesh, 13 in Uttarakhand, 8 each in Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, 7 in Tamil Nadu, 6 each in Chhattisgarh and Puducherry, 5 in Goa, 4 in Jammu & Kashmir, 3 in Orissa, 2 in Assam and 1 each in Mizoram and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

The statement said 36 new cases of swine flu were reported from different parts of India today, including 20 in Maharashtra, 7 in Gujarat, 2 each in Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, and 1 each in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

With these, the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus reported in the country so far has gone up to 28,711, the statement added.