Overview

• Kerala now counts 674 people on its Nipah contact list, including 131 in Malappuram, 426 in Palakkad, 115 in Kozhikode, and one each in Ernakulam and Thrissur.
• Twelve people in Malappuram and seventeen in Palakkad remain in isolation for treatment or observation, while Malappuram has returned eighty-eight negative test results.
• Health Minister Veena George reported thirty-two individuals in the highest-risk category and 111 in the high-risk group across Kerala.
• Fever surveillance has intensified in containment zones with mobile tower tracking, door-to-door surveys and an ICMR team sampling bats for zoonotic testing.
• Tamil Nadu’s health department deployed thirty staff and police at six Coimbatore checkposts to enforce 24-hour screening of inbound vehicles and travelers.