More than 700 calls have been received at the control room set up by UT Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department. The residents from the tricity have been calling at the helpline numbers everyday with queries related to symptoms of avian influenza, H5N1 among other issues.
Team placed under home quarantine: The 30-member team which had conducted the culling operations at Sukhna lake are quarantined. The quarantining process involved restricting these individuals to their residences and putting them on Tamiflu dosage for 10 days. Quarantining is a preventive measure against the threat of transmission of the virus to other individuals from an infected person.
No orders for culling of Migratory birds: No orders regarding culling of migratory birds have been issued so far. With the presence of more than 1000 migratory birds here, which could be the carriers of H5N1 virus, the concerns for the spread of dreaded avian influenza H5N1 is growing in Union Territory of Chandigarh, which is also the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.