According to India´s Health Ministry, the number of those affected has reached 783.
The swine flu victim from Ahmedabad was a 43-year old NRI who was admitted to the civil hospital in Ahmedabad. He had arrived into Ahmedabad from Atlanta, USA along with his wife on July 31.
The couple developed symptoms for swine flu on August 5 and tested positive for the same on August 7.
The NRI´s death comes only a day after Sanjay Tukaram Kokre, 42, a resident of a village near Pune, died at the government-run Sassoon Hospital. This is the second swine flu death in the city.
Kokre had been admitted to the hospital on Friday. Hospital sources said Kokre was put on ventilator after his condition deteriorated but could not be saved.
Rida Shaikh, 14, became India´s first swine flu victim when she died in Pune on Monday.
Famida Panwala, 53, who had diabetes and hypertension, died after being diagnosed with swine flu in Mumbai on Saturday. She was India´s second swine flu victim as the influenza A(H1N1) virus continued to spread across the country, infecting 71 new patients including the NRI couple and a number of doctors.
The total number of people infected by the contagious virus has reached 783, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Of the 71 fresh cases, Pune recorded 34, Delhi 13, Mumbai 2, Bangalore 10, Chennai seven, Mangalore 3 and Amritsar and Faridabad one each.
Among the states, Maharashtra is the worst affected with over 260 cases. Pune accounts for the majority of them.
"A central team has been deputed today (Saturday) to Pune to assess the situation and institute appropriate public health measures," the ministry said on Saturday.
In Pune, a medico and a pharmacist, both positive cases of swine flu, continued to be critical for the second day on Saturday at the Sassoon Hospital.
"They are both on ventilators and their condition is causing concern," said Pradeep Awate, head of the state Swine Flu Control Room.
In Mumbai, 28-year-old businessman Sandeep Gaikwad, who was admitted to the Hiranandani Hospital after developing swine flue symptoms last week, turned critical on Friday and was put on a ventilator.
In Delhi where hundreds of people flocked to testing centers, at least two doctors were home-quarantined with suspected swine flu.
"I am now home-quarantined for two days," S K Sharma, chief medical officer of the swine flu detection centre at the government-run Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital, told Indo Asian News Service (IANS).
"We are too much exposed to the virus as we spend over 12 hours in the testing center. My sample has been sent for tests and the result will come in 48 hours," he said.
In Kolkata two doctors, Ranjit Mandal and Prashanta Sarkar, were admitted to the Infectious Diseases (ID) hospital with symptoms of swine flu. They had fever, cough and cold.
"Their samples have been sent for testing," the state health department´s nodal officer for swine flu Tapas Sen told IANS.
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh also reported their first swine flu suspects on Saturday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said this week that more than 1,150 people have died from swine flu and the virus was now in 168 countries and territories. Nearly 90 percent of deaths have been in the Americas.
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