A high alert has been sounded in the Unnao district. A team of doctors reached the house of the infected person and ensured all sorts of preventive measures.
The two cases in Lucknow come against the backdrop of rising Zika virus cases in Kanpur district that has reported 105 cases so far.
A massive sampling campaign is underway in the Zika virus affected areas of Kanpur.
A massive sampling campaign is underway in the affected areas, said a senior health official.
Yogi Adityanath had earlier directed officials to run the 'Vishesh Sanchari Rog Niyantran Abhiyan' (special communicable diseases control campaign) and the 'Dastak' campaign in a proactive manner, the government said.
Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that spreads through the bite of an infected Aedes species of mosquito, which bites during the day. Symptoms of this disease are mild fever, rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle, and joint pain, and headache.
To check the spread of the disease, health teams are undertaking sanitisation programmes, including anti-larvae spraying and identifying fever patients, screening seriously ill people, and pregnant women.
Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that spreads through the bite of an infected Aedes species of mosquito, which bites during the day.
The first case in Kanpur was reported on Oct 23 when an IAF warrant officer tested positive for Zika virus.
A house-to-house survey was conducted by 65 surveillance teams of health, civic, para-medical personnel and staff of local administration in the affected areas, including IAF station on Monday.
A high alert has been sounded in the periphery of hangars of IAF at the Maintenance Command, besides the adjoining civilian localities, including Pardewanpurwa and Pokharpur localities regarding the mosquito-borne virus.
A team of senior administrative and health officials visited Pardevanpurwa in Pokharpur where state's 1st Zika case was reported on Saturday and reviewed steps taken for prevention and treatment of infection.
The team will recommend necessary public health interventions for the management of Zika in the state, a statement said.
The affected, according to reports is an Air Force Station personnel and has been admitted to Air Force Hospital.
Both were arrested from Ramgarh Tal area on Sunday evening and will be handed over to the Special Investigation Team probing the case.
The assailants tied all the three bodies with a rope, covered them with a blanket and fled with the grocery owner's two-wheeler.
The family of slain businessman Manish Gupta (36) said the chief minister has "accepted all our demands and we are satisfied with the meeting".
Thirty-six-year-old Manish Gupta had died under suspicious circumstances inside a hotel in Ramgarhtal area on Monday. A
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