Kozhikode District Collector A Geetha listed the panchayats declared as containment zones: Atanchery, Maruthonkara, Tiruvallur, Kuttiyadi, Kayakkodi, Villyapalli, and Kavilumpara.
In Nipah Virus the worrying aspect is its propensity to infect close family contacts and healthcare workers through human-to-human transmission. The Kerala state government has taken certain decisions to interrupt the transmission. Seven panchayats in Kozhikode have been declared containment zones. What is also critical is to train frontline health workers and doctors in public and private sectors on case definitions and mechanisms to collect and transport samples, informed Prof Rajib Dasgupta.
An adult and a child were still infected in hospital, and over 130 people have been tested for the virus, spread via contact with the bodily fluids of infected bats, pigs or people