kochi no animals with symptoms of nipah virus were found in ernakulam district said the district collector mohammed y safirulla the number of persons with suspected nipah virus touched six on wednesday and now 314 persons are under surveillance and home quarantined the samples of six suspected cases who are in the isolation ward at government medical college ernakulam have been sent to virology institutes at pune and alappuzha sunil centre a migrant worker along with his byestander who was referred to special attention for fever arrived at the specially created isolation ward at ernakulam medical college on wednesdaysunil centre a migrant worker along with his byestander who was referred to special attention for fever arrived at the specially created isolation ward at ernakulam medical college on wednesday photo by jipson sikherathe animal husbandry department officials have visited thrissur and idukki district to ascertain the situation and create awareness that if there is any animal with symptoms of nipah it should be immediately reported meanwhile a team from the national institute of high security animal diseases nihsad bhopal and southern regional disease diagnostic laboratory bengalaru will visit idukki and thrissur districts on thursdayernakulam collector said that the schools in the district will reopen on june 6 as scheduledmeanwhile a sixmember team from the ministry of health and family welfare visited paravur in ernakulam district where the 23yearold boy who is undergoing treatment at a private hospital after being confirmed with nipah is from government has added one more nipah call centre 04842425200 already 1077 is functional on wednesday they received about 372 callsmeanwhile labour department officials visited labour camps in the district and served notices at places that was found to be unhygienic