In the wake of the rising Nipah virus cases, the Kerala government announced containment zones, imposed restrictions in these areas and declared holiday in few schools. The government also ramped up contact tracing to detect people who came in contact with the patients. Check details here:
NEW DELHI, Sept 14 India has curbed public gatherings and shut some schools in the southern state of Kerala after two people died of Nipah, a virus from bats or pigs that.
Experts have fanned out in India's southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees in a region where the deadly Nipah virus has killed two people and three more have tested positive. The state is battling its fourth outbreak since 2018 of a virus for which there is no vaccine, and which spreads through contact with the body fluids of infected bats, pigs or people, killing up to 75% of those infected. "We are testing human beings . and at the same time experts are collecting fluid samples from forested areas that could be the hotspot for the spread," Veena George, the state's health minister, told Reuters.