Six cases of the Nipah virus have been so far found in the state of which two persons died while four others, including a nine-year-old boy are under treatment. The health minister said that ICMR and WHO had conducted studies and found that Kerala and eight other states in India have the probability of Nipah occurrence.
The Disaster Management Department in Kerala s Kozhikode has relaxed the restrictions in the district as no new cases of Nipah virus infection were reported in the state, the officials informed on Tuesday.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General, Dr. Rajeev Bahl, said that the mortality rate of the Nipah virus is very high, compared to Covid-19.
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