The Health Department of Tamil Nadu has geared stringent monitoring of people reaching the state from Kerala after a 12-year-old boy from Calicut died of the Nipah virus attack.

The Tamil Nadu state health department had given guidelines to district collectors and district health officers in districts bordering Kerala so as to ensure strict vigil at all the check posts. The state has also constituted full-fledged medical teams at the borders with a heavy police posse guarding the check posts.

According to reports, the District health officers of Kanyakumari, Theni, Tenkasi, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, and Tiruppur have been instructed to ensure that screening teams were deployed on all roads bordering Kerala. They are being instructed to collect blood samples, throat swabs, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples of those who are showing symptoms of fever. All the passengers who enter the state from Kerala are subjected to fever checkups with fever surveillance clinics being set up in the medical facilities at the borders.

The officials said that a large number of people are returning to Tamil Nadu from Kerala after Onam Holidays and have not adhered to the mandatory guidelines.

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