As per report from sources it was stated that a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) reported the first three “laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika virus disease” in India all from Ahmedabad, the Gujarat government Sunday said there was no need for a specific campaign to prevent spread of the virus in the city. The government also cited a “mistake” by the WHO in reporting the first case, and noted that the patients belonged to separate localities.
Meanwhile at a press meet, state chief secretary J N Singh said the first positive case was reported in November 2016 and not in February 2016, as stated by WHO. He also said all the three cases were not from Bapunagar the third patient belonged to Gopalnagar. Singh said “These were isolated cases. If there were reports of spread of the disease, there would have been warnings.”
According to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, it had no information about
positive zika cases and took only preventive measures as per state government’s
directives. State government officials, however, said all decisions were taken
by the Centre.
Moreover Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Sunday said there was no established link between the three persons detected with Zika infection. “All these three cases two from Bapunagar and one from Gopalnagar are random. There is no relation between any of these cases. They are from middle-class families with no foreign travel history".
