Kerala on high alert following Nipah outbreak

One more person in Kerala tested positive for Nipah virus on Friday, taking the total confirmed cases to six. (PTI Photo)

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   One more person in Kerala tested positive for Nipah virus on Friday, taking the total confirmed cases to six. (PTI Photo)

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   The 39-year-old, who tested positive, had received treatment at the same Kozhikode private hospital that the other patients who tested positive had been to. (PTI Photo)

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   In picture, health workers at a control room set up amid the virus outbreak in Kerala, in Kozhikode. (PTI Photo)

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   The latest person to test positive for the deadly virus has been under observation in a hospital in the district. (Reuters Photo)

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   Meanwhile, the state government has stepped up containment activities in Kozhikode, where restrictions are in force in nine panchayats. (PTI Photo)

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   In picture, members of a medical team from Kozhikode Medical College carry areca nut and guava fruit samples to conduct tests for the virus in Maruthonkara village in the district. (Reuters Photo)

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   Educational institutions in the district will remain closed until Saturday and all gatherings have been banned till September 24. (PTI Photo)

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   To meet any eventuality, the government has readied 75 isolation rooms, six ICUs and four ventilators at the Medical College Hospital. (Reuters Photo)

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   Meanwhile, the Karnataka health department has also issued surveillance guidelines in the districts bordering the neighbouring state to contain the spread of the disease. (PTI Photo)

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   In picture, a patient being admitted to a Nipah isolation ward at the Medical College in Kozhikode, Thursday. (PTI Photo)