Centre allays transmission fears, states attempt to restrict chicken flu unfold

By: Express News Service | Chandigarh, Mumbai, New Delhi |

Updated: January 12, 2021 1:52:12 am

The chicken flu has unfold to 10 states with authorities initiating management measures and the federal government assuring that there are not any scientific reviews of the virus’ transmission to people after a whole bunch of birds have been discovered lifeless in a number of areas throughout the nation on Monday.
Delhi, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra on Monday confirmed chicken flu instances, days after Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh reported avian deaths as a result of illness.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested all state governments to make sure a continuing vigil close to locations equivalent to water our bodies, zoos and poultry farms, expressing hope that “we will be able to overcome this challenge soon” by way of correct coordination between Forest, Health and Animal Husbandry Departments.
While states introduced a number of steps, together with mass culling of poultry, ban on reside birds markets and restriction on rooster and associated meals supplies, the Centre requested them to not shut mandis or impede the gross sales of poultry merchandise. The Centre additionally directed states to take care of satisfactory inventory of PPE kits and equipment required for culling operations.
Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Giriraj Singh mentioned there have been no scientific reviews on transmission of chicken flu to people and shoppers shouldn’t be scared.
Even as the primary confirmed instances of chicken flu have been reported from Delhi, officers from the forest division in neighbouring Gurgaon mentioned there was a surge within the variety of calls obtained relating to carcasses of birds over the past one week.
Officials mentioned the calls have been initially relating to lifeless crows, however a number of calls at the moment are about lifeless pigeons.
The Delhi authorities imposed a ban on the sale of processed and packaged rooster introduced from outdoors the town, as samples of geese from Sanjay Lake examined optimistic for chicken flu. “But there is no need to panic about bird flu. It is a common influenza,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia mentioned.
In Maharashtra, three crows in Mumbai and 15 pond egrets and two parrots in Thane have been confirmed to have died because of chicken flu, officers mentioned on Monday. The state has recorded 1,205 avian deaths since Friday with authorities planning culling of poultry inside 1 km radius of an contaminated space in Parbhani district on Tuesday. “Cases found in Mumbai and Thane region are among crows and not poultry. There are no poultry units within Mumbai and it is not an infected area. All the cases found are in backyard poultry… It is completely safe to eat eggs and poultry meat, if the eggs and poultry meat are cooked for 30 minutes at a temperature of 70 degrees Celsius,” mentioned Anoop Kumar, Principal Secretary on the Maharashtra Animal Husbandry division.

The Himachal Pradesh authorities banned provide of all poultry merchandise from different states for every week. “The ban has been imposed to ensure that infection does not come from other states through poultry products,” Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur mentioned.
Meanwhile, wildlife officers mentioned 122 extra migratory birds of varied species have been discovered lifeless in Pong Dam Lake wildlife sanctuary Monday, taking the toll amongst such waterbirds to 4,357.