{"id":86693,"date":"2022-05-27T22:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86693"},"modified":"2022-05-27T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:00:38","slug":"west-bengal-government-issues-advisory-on-monkeypox-virus-outbreak-read-it-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/west-bengal-government-issues-advisory-on-monkeypox-virus-outbreak-read-it-here\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal government issues advisory on monkeypox virus outbreak, read it here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government of West Bengal has asked hospitals in the state to set up separate facilities for accommodating monkeypox patients from abroad, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the department&#8217;s advisory, hospitals should keep isolation beds ready and send samples from suspected patients to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although monkeypox has not been reported in India, new cases have been detected from other countries, so chances of monkeypox spreading to India cannot be ruled out, the advisory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to all district administrations and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the note was sent to all medical college superintendents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In India, there is no evidence of monkeypox virus in any body, but we should remain cautious, according to ICMR director-general Samiran Panda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If someone is coming from a foreign country or abroad and shows symptoms such as fever and headache, they should be isolated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of West Bengal has asked hospitals in the state to set up separate facilities for accommodating monkeypox patients from abroad, officials said on Friday. According to the department&#8217;s advisory, hospitals should keep isolation beds ready and send samples from suspected patients to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology. Although monkeypox has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-86693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-monekypox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86694,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86693\/revisions\/86694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}