Nipah virus: One more confirmed case in Kerala's Kozhikode, contact list nears 1,000 | Latest updates

All states near Kerala are inspecting goods vehicles entering the districts and checking for fruits. Hospitals, primary health centres on standby

Nipah virus in Kerala: One more Nipah virus case was confirmed in Kozhikode today.  The sample of a 39-year-old man tested positive, he is at present under observation in a private hospital.

This takes the total number Nipah virus cases to six, and the active cases stand at four after two people died due to the infection.

-- A team of officials from Delhi will be visiting Maruthonkara and Ayancheri, two of the 7 areas in Kerala's Kozhikode district, where two people have died due to Nipah infection.

-- Kerala Health Department found 51 more people with fever in the containment zones

--- The number of people on the contact list has increased to 950, with 213 of them considered high-risk. The contact list has 287 health workers

-- Rajasthan has directed medical officials to remain 'alert' regarding any Nipah outbreak in the wake of cases being reported from Kozhikode

-- 11 samples sent for testing in Kozhikode returned negative results for the virus.

-- ICMR's mBSL-3, the first Biosafety Level-3 containment mobile laboratory in south Asia, is helping in the early detection of the infection cause by Nipah virus

-- A 19-member core committee, call centres and a control centre have been set up in Kozhikode, along with isolation, ventilator and ICU facilities

-- Offices told to work from home and public parks and beaches in the containment zones have been shut

-- Visitors are not allowed in hospitals and private functions curtailed

-- Travel to containment zones banned

-- Karnataka has enhanced surveillance in its border districts.

-- All bordering states are inspecting goods vehicles entering the districts and checking for fruits. Hospitals, primary health centres on standby