Thiruvananthapuram: a sample of 17 more people, who was in the contact list of children who surrendered to the Nipah virus last week, had tested negatively, the Minister of Health Veena George said on Monday.
The minister said about 17 results, five were tested at Pune NIV and the rest in a special lab established in Kozhikode Medical College.
“At present, the 140 close contact sample has been tested negatively,” Minister said in the release.
The minister said in a special lab arranged in medical colleges, a total of 115 samples were tested within six days.
The laboratory was founded on September 6, the day after the 12-year-old boy died for Nipah on September 5, the Minister said.
George yesterday said that it was important to identify the source of infection and the supervision team from Pune NIV had collected samples from various parts.
He said high-risk contacts were isolated in cozhikode MCH and their health conditions stable.
The state government has conducted a complete home-to-home survey in a three-km-radius of a boy who surrendered to the Nipah virus as part of the supervision of fever.
The previous government said that in the survey, around 15,000 houses were included from the detention and detail zone sought from around 68,000 people.