6 more lives were taken by killer A (H1N1) yesterday, taking the Swine Flu pandemic death toll in the country to 1,302. Five deaths were reported from Gujarat, while Maharashtra reported one death on Saturday.

Maharashtra now leads with 340 Swine Flu, followed by Gujarat (268), Rajasthan (186), Karnataka (141), Delhi (95), Andhra Pradesh (52), Punjab (39), Kerala (37), Haryana (37), Madhya Pradesh (24), Uttar Pradesh (18) and Uttarakhand (13).

With these, confirmed cases of the virus reported in the country so far have gone up to a huge number of 29,303. But experts say that the worst is behind us.

Soon after the outbreak of H1N1 virus in the US and Mexico in March, the Government of India started screening people coming from the affected countries at airports for swine flu symptoms.

First of such case in India was found on the Hyderabad airport on 13 May, when a man flying from US to India was found to be H1N1 positive. The only known drug to work against H1N1 in India is Tamiflu.