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 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 in New Delhi.
However, the swine flu scare has come in the way of India's efforts at economic recovery and some slackening sectors like tourism and trade may witness further slowdown, says Moody's.
Text: PTI
Image: A nurse shows a pack of Tamiflu as she prepares isolation rooms for any suspected cases of bird or swine flu in Sarjito hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. | Photograph: Dwi Oblo/Reuters
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