Till now India is free from for the deadly swine flu. Now India will work on developing a vaccine for the deadly swine flu. The decision was taken during a high level meeting.

ICMR director general Dr V M Katoch said, "It is a high level exploratory meeting between experts from NICD, NIV, ICMR and several vaccine manufacturers to see whether India can embark on creating a vaccine against H1N1."

He added, "The decision on the strategy will be taken on Tuesday. We will discuss with all prospective vaccine manufacturers whether they have the capability and the technology to undertake the ambitious project."

He said that while the short-term strategy would include a plan of action to tackle the outbreak of a pandemic, like the one this year, the long-term method would focus on creation of a vaccine and vaccination of a select population.

Katoch said that the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, will send the strain of the H1N1 virus to help in the research work.