According to local media reports, one expert each from the microbiology, infectious disease and emergency medicine departments will head to Kochi to bring the situation under control. This came soon after the presence of the virus was confirmed in a youth admitted to a private hospital there.
Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has negated claims made by the online media that the youth under treatment is a Nipah positive patient.
He said that though 17 deaths due to the virus have been reported from Kerala, no fresh cases of infection were filed.
Abdulla said his act was only to bring the government's attention to the situation in Kuttiyadi-Perambra region, the epicenter of the Nipah virus.
Several staffers, including nurses and four doctors, of a hospital in Balussery near Kozhikode have been asked to go on leave from as a precautionary measure
Though the minister said there is no need for panic, she pointed out that since all those in contact with the affected are still in the incubating period of the virus, utmost caution has to be maintained.
The government has asked people to "stop consumption of raw date palm sap" and take special precaution when it comes to consuming mangoes that have fallen off trees and lying under them this season.
This is not the first time Vij has targetted Rahul Gandhi. In an earlier statement, Vij had said that his election as Congress president would help Prime Minister Narendra Modi in making India “Congress Free.”
"The patient was travelling alone on a train from Kerala but took ill when he reached Thivim railway station in Goa this morning," Dr Utkarsh Betodkar, Chief Surveillance Officer, Directorate of Health Services told reporters.
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Although the number of patients coming for treatment with symptoms of Nipah virus infection has gone down, Kozhikode Collector U.V. Jose has banned till May 31 all public meetings and even training courses, including tuitions, to avoid assembly of people.
The deceased, V Moosa (61), had been battling for life since the past few days in a private hospital here and was on ventilator support.
"Travelling to any part of Kerala is safe. However, if travellers wish to be extra cautious, they may avoid the four districts", Health Secretary Rajeev Sadanandan said.
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Twenty eight-year-old Lini working in the Perambra Taluk Hospital in Kozhikode got exposed to the 'deadly' virus while treating patients affected from it.
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