Kerala Nipah deaths: 7 villages declared containment zones, schools closed
The Kerala government on Wednesday announced that seven village panchayats in Kerala's Kozhikode, where two people died due to the Nipah virus, were declared as containment zones. NO TRAVEL TO CONTAINMENT ZONES, SHOPS SELLING ESSENTIALS TO REMAIN OPEN In a Facebook post, Kozhikode District Collector A Geetha said the seven village panchayats declared as containment zones were -- Atanchery, Maruthonkara, Tiruvallur, Kuttiyadi, Kayakkodi, Villyapalli and Kavilumpara. Earlier, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged people not to panic and to take precautions instead after the Nipah virus deaths were confirmed in Kozhikode, PTI reported. MORE TEAMS TO VISIT KERALA FOR NIPAH SURVEY In the state Assembly, Veena George said apart from the NIV Pune teams, a group of epidemiologists from Chennai would reach Kerala today to conduct a survey.
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