According to media source, The Kerala government today announced that seven village panchayats in Kerala’s Kozhikode, where two people died due to the Nipah virus, were declared as containment zones. The government also announced restrictions and measures to prevent the spread of the infection.
As per media reports, The move came after four Nipah cases were confirmed in four people, including a nine-year-old boy, in Kozhikode district, following which an alert was sounded by the state health ministry. Authorities shut down some schools and offices in the affected areas.
Kerala Health Minister Veena George said in the state Assembly that the Nipah virus strain was the Bangladesh variant that spreads from human to human and has a high mortality rate, though it is less infectious.
Earlier, outbreaks of Nipah virus in the state took place in 2018 and 2021. An official from Kerala’s health ministry said over 130 people had been so far tested for the Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected bats, pigs or other people.
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