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more-inThe health condition of two patients in the city whose throat swab samples were sent to two laboratories on Tuesday to know whether they are infected with Nipah virus is improving, a Health Department official said here on Wednesday. He said that all education institutes have been instructed to inform the Health Department of any suspected Nipah symptoms noticed among students both in schools and colleges and in hostels. Dr.
Rajesh said that the Health Department here on Wednesday created a local WhatsApp group for internal communication among doctors both in private and government sectors in the district. “The two patients were doing very well on Wednesday and their condition is improving,” he said and added that they were being given symptomatic treatment in their respective hospitals. The samples were sent for analysis after doctors observed symptoms and not ready to take any chances, he said..