Agartala/Aizawl/Imphal, Feb 20 (IANS) The northeastern states have sounded a high alert to prevent the spread of swine flu in the bordering region even as two women tested positive for the virus in Nagaland and Mizoram, officials said Friday.
In Mizoram a Mizo woman was detected with swine flu, the first case in the state, bordering Myanmar.
"A woman tested positive for swine flu in Aizawl. She was in New Delhi for a short period and it is suspected that she contracted the H1N1 virus in the national capital," nodal officer of Mizoram Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Pachuau Lalmalsawma told reporters.
The official said that blood samples of four people, including the woman, were sent to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in Kolkata where one sample (of the woman) was found to be H1N1 positive.
The woman is now under medical supervision.
In Nagaland, the state's health and family welfare department sounded a high alert in all its 11 district units after a woman in Dimapur tested positive for swine flu.
"A Naga woman tested positive for H1N1 Monday at a district hospital in Dimapur. She works in Chennai, and had come to Dimapur via Kolkata on Feb 13," a health department official said in Kohima.
The Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya governments have also sounded high alerts and directed the district medical authorities to be ready to deal with any eventuality.
In Manipur, director of state health directorate Okram Ibomcha said that surveillance cells have been opened in all the nine districts of the state.
He said that district medical officers and nodal officers of the surveillance cells have been asked to conduct awareness programmes on swine flu among the people.
The official advised people to take precautionary measures as per the advice of the doctors.
In Assam, special swine flu disease prevention facilities have been set up at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital, Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh and Silchar Medical College.
Tripura Health and Family Welfare Minister Badal Choudhury said that a special medical ward has been created in Agartala government medical college to deal with the infectious disease.
"The state health department is fully alert to deal with swine flu in the state. The health department has procured the required medicines from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra," Choudhury told reporters.
"There is no case of swine flu so far in Tripura," said the minister, who held a review meeting here Thursday with health department officials and doctors.
The meeting decided to post medical teams at Agartala airport and other entry points including the India-Bangladesh checkposts to screen people.
The northeastern states share international boundaries with China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal and there is frequent cross border movement of people in the region - legally and illegally.
Ayodhya rape case: Akhilesh adamant on the demand for DNA test, Awadhesh Prasad said- the accused should be given death penalty
Akhilesh Yadav is adamant on the demand for DNA tests in the Ayodhya rape case. At the same time, Faizabad (Ayodhya) MP Awadhesh Prasad also called the incident shameful and said that the accused
IND vs ENG: Ashwin created history in the Test, the first Indian player to achieve this feat against England
India's experienced spinner Ravichandran Ashwin achieved a major achievement during the fourth Test match against England. Ashwin trapped Jonny Bairstow LBW in England's first innings on Friday
India's power shown in Commonwealth: India won medals in 12 sports in Birmingham; Better performance than 2018 in Wrestling, TT, Athletics and Badminton
In the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, India finished fourth with a total of 61 medals, including 21 gold. In the 2018 Goldcoast Games, we were third with 66 medals including 26 gold. That is, in four
Big success in Ludhiana blast: Terrorist Multani arrested from Germany; Conspiracy hatched with drug smugglers at the behest of ISI, Mumbai-Delhi were also on target
Sikh for Justice (SFJ) terrorist Jaswinder Singh Multani has been arrested from Germany in connection with the Ludhiana blasts. Multani was apprehended by federal police from Erfurt in central
Haryana Election: BJP, which accused Congress of nepotism, is itself trapped! Tickets given to family members of 10 leaders
BJP, which often attacks parties doing family politics in Haryana, has got entangled in its own web this time.
Government's mega plan to curb pollution, in this way the smoke of vehicles will end
A major source of air pollution is the smoke from vehicles. This has been confirmed in the report of IIT Kanpur. According to the report, the share of smoke from vehicles in the total pollution in
Cop rapes woman in Delhi
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) A woman in her 30s was raped by a Delhi Police head constable, police said Thursday.Devi Singh, posted with the disaster team of Delhi Police in north Delhi's Rohini, is
Hockey players clashed in Commonwealth Games: Angered by a stick, one player grabbed another's throat, and pulled T-shirt; The referee kicked off the field
The men's hockey match was played between England and Canada at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday. During this, there was a fierce fight between the two players. Canada's Balraj Panesar and England's
Earthquake in Arunachal Pradesh: The earthquake in Arunachal Pradesh shook the land of Arunachal Pradesh
Strong earthquake tremors were felt in Pangin, Arunachal Pradesh today. The earthquake occurred at around 6.56 am. According to the National Center for Seismology, the 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck
Multi Variant Covid-19 Vaccine: Trial of world's first multi-variant corona vaccine begins, trial in the UK
Multi Variant Covid-19 Vaccine, the delta variant of the coronavirus has become a cause of concern for the whole world at this time. It is being claimed in studies that the risk of this deadly variant
