Kerala on high alert following Nipah outbreak

One more person in Kerala tested positive for Nipah virus on Friday, taking the total confirmed cases to six. (PTI Photo)

The 39-year-old, who tested positive, had received treatment at the same Kozhikode private hospital that the other patients who tested positive had been to. (PTI Photo)

In picture, health workers at a control room set up amid the virus outbreak in Kerala, in Kozhikode. (PTI Photo)

The latest person to test positive for the deadly virus has been under observation in a hospital in the district. (Reuters Photo)

Meanwhile, the state government has stepped up containment activities in Kozhikode, where restrictions are in force in nine panchayats. (PTI Photo)

In picture, members of a medical team from Kozhikode Medical College carry areca nut and guava fruit samples to conduct tests for the virus in Maruthonkara village in the district. (Reuters Photo)

Educational institutions in the district will remain closed until Saturday and all gatherings have been banned till September 24. (PTI Photo)

To meet any eventuality, the government has readied 75 isolation rooms, six ICUs and four ventilators at the Medical College Hospital. (Reuters Photo)

Meanwhile, the Karnataka health department has also issued surveillance guidelines in the districts bordering the neighbouring state to contain the spread of the disease. (PTI Photo)

In picture, a patient being admitted to a Nipah isolation ward at the Medical College in Kozhikode, Thursday. (PTI Photo)