Pune continues to battle with swine flu. Now two men in the city are on ventilator after testing positive for swine flu.

A private doctor had breathing problems after he was tested positive, following which, he was put on ventilator.

Another victim, a 35-year-old man suffering from the H1N1 virus, was also moved to intensive care and put on a ventilator. The patient is a pharmacist. He has a history of heart ailment. Relatives of the patient could not say how he contracted the virus.

Both the patients are stable now, and are admitted in the city's Sassoon General Hospital.

This comes three days after 14-year-old Reeda Sheikh became country's first H1N1 casualty.

Meanwhile, the flu is spreading with 23 new cases coming up in the last 24 hours across India. Of these, 11 cases are from Delhi, eight from Pune and four from Mangalore.

One of the patients is a 25-year-old man who reached Delhi from Chicago on July 28. In Pune too, one of the patients returned from Frankfurt to Mumbai.

So far 615 swine flu cases have been reported in India whereas the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the number of flu cases being reported are coming down worldwide.

New flu cases come up in Delhi-NCR

Meanwhile, 11 new cases of H1N1 have come up in the National Capital Region - two from Noida and one from Gurgaon.

An 18-year-old student of Amity University, and a 13-year-old boy from Vishwa Bharti School have been found to be infected in Noida. In Gurgaon, a seven-year-old boy of Sriram Aravali School has tested positive.

Sanskriti School is closed till Monday after an 11-year-old Class VI student tested positive. The school is taking sanitisation measures.

Three new screening centres have also been opened at Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College.

The Delhi Health Minister meanwhile has said that two IIT-Delhi students were admitted with H1N1.