KOCHI: The test results of the youth admitted at a private hospital in Kochi with symptoms of Nipah will be obtained Monday afternoon, said Health Minister K K Shylaja.

The blood samples have been sent to Manipal Institute of Virology and Kerala State Institute of Virology and Infectious Diseases in Alappuzha. If the presence of the virus is confirmed on the youth, all arrangements have been taken to defend it, the minister said.

The institution where the student is studying, places he visited as part of his education and the people he came close to are all under observation by the health department.

The youth is presently taken care in a private hospital’s isolation ward. It might also be a case of viral or bacterial encephalitis.