Overview
- Authorities have identified at least 14 patients in the town of about 35,000, with one local report citing 17.
- Deputy CM Rajendra Shukla reviewed the response on Saturday, with the state covering all treatment costs and activating a control room and a dedicated hospital ward equipped with a life-support ambulance.
- Door-to-door health checks and awareness drives are underway, and district teams report screening more than 30,000 residents from over 5,000 families.
- Two patients previously on ventilators are now recovering, several have been discharged, and others have been referred to hospitals in Jaipur, Udaipur and Ahmedabad.
- Preliminary checks found no obvious contamination, and patient, food and environmental samples have been sent for analysis to laboratories in Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune and AIIMS Bhopal.