Gandhi will also attend an assessment and review meeting with the district officials at the PWD rest house in Kalpetta before leaving for Allahabad in the afternoon.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh announced Gandhi’s departure on X, saying that his presence was urgently required in Wayanad. He said that Gandhi will resume his yatra at 3 pm on February 18th at Prayagraj.
Health Minister Veena George told the media that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed the presence of the deadly virus in the samples of fruit bats collected from the Mananthavady and Sulthan Bathery regions of Wayanad.