High-level teams from the Centre and ICMR-NIV with mobile units equipped with BSL-3 laboratories have reached Kozhikode and will be doing on-ground testing, said Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar on September 14 after she reviewed steps taken for containment of Nipah virus outbreak in Kozhikode, Kerala.
The meeting was organized by the Indian Council of Medical Research – National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV), in Pune.
The Minister added that the affected gram panchayats in the Kozhikode area have been declared as quarantine zones.