Kozhikode is Nipah-free: Minister
The Hindu
‘But Health Department will continue vigil against the infection’
Kozhikode district can now said to be free of Nipah virus infection as no new case has been reported in the last 42 days (a double incubation period from the day the last case was reported), an official statement issued by Health Minister Veena George has said.
A Nipah control room, which was opened in connection with the infection outbreak, would be closed, even though the Health Department would continue its vigil, the statement said here on Saturday.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.