The government is also instituting surveillance of ports and international airports along with monitoring through Integrated Disease Surveillance units in the states, he said.
The country already has a stockpile of the effective drug Tamiflu which was used during the bird flu epidemic. "We have also asked for an additional one million Tamiflu to be procured," he said.
Air India, Jet advisories
Leading carriers the Air India and the Jet Airways said that they would abide by the advisory issued by health authorities following the swine flu epidemic in several countries, including Mexico and the US.
"We will abide by advisories issued by any health authority, guiding authority, to take requisite measures to deal with the flu," an Air India spokesperson told PTI.
Image: Air India's newly acquired Airbus A321 (L) and Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft. | Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters
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