KOCHI: The hospital authority informed through a medical bulletin that the health condition of the youth who is under treatment for Nipah has improved. Hospital sources said that the patient made contact with his mother through an intercom. The doctor says that the patient hasn’t yet fully recovered from the fever, even though the intensity has dropped. His health condition has improved and he is able to eat and speak.

The seventh person, an Odisha native residing in Thodupuzha, who was entered into Ernakulam Medical College’s isolation ward with fever was declared to be free of the Nipah virus.