The contact list of individuals suspected to have been infected by the Nipah virus in Kerala has grown to around 350, with 50% of them considered high-risk. To address concerns about the virus spreading in schools, the government plans to arrange online classes for areas declared as containment zones.
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India's southern state of Kerala shut some schools, offices and public transport, authorities said on Wednesday, as they scrambled to rein in the spread of the rare and deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus that has killed two people.