At least 9 trainee IPS officers at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad have tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

They have all been admitted to different hospitals in the city. Three of them have already been discharged. Throat swabs were taken from all trainees who complained of cough/cold/ fever, according to an official release here.

So far, 917 vaccines were already administered in the campus, which has the trainees, workers, faculty and families. About 2,764 dosages of homeopathic medicine were also administered.

G Srinivas Rao, Special Officer, Epidemic, and Lalitha, District Surveillance Officer, R R District, along with a medical team of four doctors camped at the academy today morning and conducted a sensitisation programme on H1N1 to the IPS officer trainees, faculty and staff.

The H1N1, which causes swine flu, has been virulent across Telangana for the past two months. Official figures put the death toll at 49 and hundreds of positive cases, most of whom are being treated at both private and Government hospitals.

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