Kozhikode, Sep 16
Following the death of a 23-year-old from Malappuram due to Nipah virus infection, authorities have made compulsory the use of masks in the district from Monday till further notice.
Health and revenue officials are now preparing the route map for the deceased and also the contact list to ensure that all the basic protocols of Nipah are followed.
The deceased, a 23-year-old student at Bengaluru, was a native of Chembaram near Naduvath in Wandoor. He died at a private hospital at Perinthalmanna last Monday.
The treating doctors, after feeling suspicious if it was on account of the Nipah virus, first got a positive report of the test conducted in Kozhikode Medical College.
On Sunday, it was Health Minister Veena George who confirmed that the Pune virology lab report also confirmed that it was Nipah positive.
The district authorities have clamped strict protocols in and around the Thiruvali panchayat including four wards and one ward from the neighbouring Mampad panchayat.
The local theatre and educational institutions in these five wards have been asked to close down and not to open till further orders come.