Nipah virus in Kerala: Schools, colleges, tuition centres in Kozhikode, Beypore harbour closed indefinitely. Top updates
Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala. The state government has now began looking for the source and place from where he got infected by seeking details of his mobile tower locations. The man died on August 30 and it was only much later it was found that he was infected with Nipah.
His nine-year-old son and brother-in-law are still undergoing treatment along with two others, one of them a health worker, with whom he came into contact at a hospital. The state government has instructed that all educational institutes in Kerala's Kozhikode will remain shut indefinitely, according to a CNBC report. This includes schools, professional colleges, and tuition centres.
Health minister Veena George has said that at present, the contact list of infected persons has 1,080 people while 130 people have been newly included today in the list. Out of all this 327 people in the list are health workers. A total of 29 people in other districts are in the contact list of Nipah-infected people.
Among them, 22 are from Malappuram, one from Wayanad and three each from Kannur and Thrissur, said Veena George. The government is also focusing on completing contact tracing in respect of the sixth person who was confirmed having Nipah virus, on Friday, to have been infected by the virus. Veena George also said that there were no new positive cases and in a relief for the state, 94 samples -- of persons from the high-risk contact list -- have come back negative for the virus.
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