While the coronavirus crisis continues to trouble the country, another major threat has emerged as several bird flu or avian influenza cases have been confirmed. On Monday, the Delhi Animal Husbandry Department confirmed that all the samples sent to a laboratory in Bhopal have tested positive for bird flu.
“Samples sent to Bhopal lab from Delhi test positive for bird flu,” the Department`s Director Rakesh Singh told news agency IANS.
The samples were sent to Bhopal’s National Institute of High Security Animal Disease last week.
The disease has already killed 900 chickens in Muramba village of Parbhani district of Maharashtra. State Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called an emergency meeting on Monday at 5 pm to discuss the state of bird flu in Maharashtra.
Bird Flu, which started from Kerala, has been confirmed in 9 states so far. Apart from Kerala, bird flu has reached Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Delhi and Uttar…