As a bird flu preventive measure, a special cleanliness and awareness drive by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) was held on Thursday and garbage was lifted from XIMB Square, Salia Sahi, the IDCO Market and the Indira Gandhi Pharmacy College and its periphery.
An unhygienic and unauthorised chicken shop was also demolished during the drive near XIMB Square.
Besides, a surveillance drive was conducted by three Rapid Response Teams (RRTs). A crow was found dead at Kharavel Nagar and was disposed by burning. A total of 10 blood and swab samples were collected from poultry at Jadupur and Sarakantara for testing.
BMC sources said no death of poultry till date was reported from any place in the city.
Surveillance activity was also carried out in the poultry unit of the Odisha University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT) area, at Saliasahi and in the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) campus at Jaya dev Vihar.