All effort to check further transmission of Nipah: Minister

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The Health department is exercising maximum vigil and taking all possible preventive measures to ensure that the current outbreak of Nipah in Kozhikode is contained and that no nosocomial or human-to-human transmission of the virus occurs.

The patient, a 43-year-old man from Ramanattukara, who was transferred from a private hospital to the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, late night on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) with encephalitis symptoms, is stable and on ventilator support.

Health Minister K. Muraleedharan, who spoke to mediapersons in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, after holding a high-level meeting with Health and Kozhikode MCH officials, said that a contact list of 77 persons who might have closely interacted with the patient had been drawn up by the Health department, including 58 persons were health-care workers, 14 patient’s family members and five co-workers and friends.

Mr. Muraleedharan said that it was a matter of great relief that none of the contacts had displayed any symptoms so far. Of the 77 on the contact list, two persons had been categorised as “at highest risk,” 13 have been listed as “at high risk,” while the rest 62 are considered to be at low risk.

Those in the highest risk and high risk categories have been asked to go on quarantine immediately.

The Health department was preparing the patient’s route map and the person seemed to have visited several health-care establishments from May 10, before reaching the Kozhikode MCH. He had visited two private hospitals and also visited diagnostic centres for undergoing MRI scan and for Echocardiography test, Mr. Muraleedharan said.

He said that as of now, there was no need for earmarking a containment zone as none other than the patient had shown any symptoms.

The Rapid Response Team in Kozhikode had met and adequate stocks of personal protection equipment and medicines were being made available. A control room has been opened at Kozhikode district medical administration’s office ( 0495-