BJP President Amit Shah will be discharged in a day or two
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Health officials said lower than normal temperatures this winter have led to a spike in cases of swine flu in northern India.
The chief of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Amit Shah, will be discharged from hospital in a day or two after a bout of swine flu, a party spokesman said on Thursday.
It is not clear how Shah contracted the H1N1 influenza.
"Amit Shah ji is doing well. He will be discharged in a day or two. Thanks everyone for your good wishes!," Anil Baluni, spokesman of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party said in a tweet.
Health officials said lower than normal temperatures this winter have led to a spike in cases of swine flu in northern India.
"Cases of seasonal swine flu in India go up during winters and this January the winter is proving particularly harsh," said RS Taneja, the head of the medicine department at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.
Overall, though, the National Centre for Disease Control said 13,447 cases of H1N1 virus were reported by December 9 of last year compared to 38,811 in 2017.
Shah is the second top member of Modi's inner circle to fall ill. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley left for the United States earlier this week for a medical check-up, officials said. They did not provide details of his condition.