Overview

• Officials confirm six pediatric deaths from kidney-related complications between September 4 and 26 in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh.
• District magistrate says no new cases were recorded in the past two days and expert teams have been deployed to investigate.
• Authorities banned specific cough syrups and issued an advisory to avoid certain pediatric formulations, with Coldrif and Nextro-DS named locally.
• Early reports cited by officials indicate no signs consistent with vector-borne viral infection and water tests have shown no negative results so far.
• NCDC and IDSP teams collected human, water, and medicine samples for analysis, some human reports showed nothing serious, and five children have been referred to Government Medical College, Nagpur.