A 40-year-old woman from Santoshpur who had died at the Sri Aurobindo Seva Kendra in south Calcutta on Thursday evening was on Friday officially declared the seventh victim of swine flu in Bengal this year.

On Thursday night, health department officials had not been able to confirm the cause of the woman's death but they did so on Friday after receiving a notification from the hospital regarding the cause of the death.

A hospital official said the woman had been admitted late on Tuesday with high fever, pneumonia, low blood pressure and hypertension. After her condition deteriorated the next morning, she was put on ventilator and she tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Her condition continued to worsen and she died on Thursday evening.

The woman's brother said she had been suffering from high blood sugar for a long time. 'She had developed fever that was refusing to subside and doctors advised us to hospitalise her. She was first admitted to Life Line nursing home in Santoshpur on Sunday morning. As her condition worsened she was shifted to Aurobindo Seva Kendra,' he said.

Of the seven people who have died of the disease in the state so far this year, one woman was from Mumbai and a child was from Malda. The rest were from Calcutta.

According to health secretary Moloy Dey, 12 fresh cases have been detected in tests conducted on Friday, taking the number of affected in the city to 112.

'Fifty-five of the 112 people detected with swine flu have already recovered. Fifty patients are undergoing treatment at the moment; 21 of them in government hospitals and 29 in private establishments,' said Dey.

Among those detected with the virus on Friday was an Indonesian woman who had landed at the Calcutta airport on Wednesday night with fever, cough and cold.

She's being treated at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Beleghata.

Assault complaint

Manju Karmakar, 70, a resident of Ward 16 of South Dum Dum Municipality, has filed a complaint against local Trinamul Congress workers accusing them of assaulting her daughter Lakshmi on Thursday night.

According to the complaint lodged with Dum Dum police station, the Trinamul workers had been demanding a room on the ground floor of Manju's house to set up an office.