A 35-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman died due to swine flu in Pune Sassoon Hospital early Wednesday.

According to an official of the State Swine Flu Control Room, Sanjay Mistry, a resident of Pimpri, near Pune, was admitted to the hospital last Sunday in a critical condition and put on a ventilator. While Shravani Deshpande succumbed to acute pneumonia along with H1N1 symptoms.

With this, the total number of swine flu casualty in Maharashtra has gone up to 9.

Currently, there areu00a0four critical patients in the Pune Sassoon Hospital and another two critical patients in a Mumbai hospital.

Two more people have died of swine flu in Gujarat and one each in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, taking the nationwide death toll to 13.