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Maharashtra: Strict curbs on inter-district, state movement; no entry from hotspot Vidarbha to Marathwada (PTI Photo)
Mumbai: Taking a cue from the governments of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi governments, who have made negative RT-PCR test reports compulsory for those coming from Maharashtra, within the state itself, district collectors have prohibited inter-district and inter-state movement.
Marathwada borders are off-limits for people from Vidarbha, where the spike has been drastic, especially in Yavatmal, Akola, Amravati, Buldana and Washim districts. Special checkposts have been set up to curb entry, to avoid spurt in infection. Similar checkposts have been set up at the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana borders.
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PUNE/MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will chair a meeting to review the bird flu situation in the state on Monday.
Maharashtra on Sunday had joined seven other states in reporting an outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu.
The presence of the H5N1 strain in Maharashtra was confirmed late on Sunday with Bhopal-based National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases finding it in the trachea and spleen samples of dead birds sent from the state for tests even as 11 more crows were found dead in Chembur in Mumbai.
Maharashtra animal husbandry commissioner Sachindra Pratap Singh told TOI that the samples of dead poultry birds from Muramba village in Parbhani and dead crows and pond egrets in Mumbai, Ghodbunder (Thane district) and Dapoli have returned positive for H5N1.