NEW DELHI: India has quarantined a man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia but continued to show traces of the virus in samples of his semen after arriving in the country, the Indian Health Ministry said yesterday.
The ministry said in a statement that the Indian national tested negative for Ebola in tests conforming to World Heath Organisation guidelines but was quarantined when he arrived at New Delhi airport as a precautionary measure. Later, tests of his semen detected traces of the virus.
“It is a known fact that during convalescence from Ebola Virus Disease, persons continue to shed virus in bodily fluids for variable periods. However, presence of (the) virus in his semen samples may have the possibility of transmitting the disease through sexual route up to 90 days from time of clinical cure.”
CBI raids 18 places over Odisha chit fund scam
New Delhi: The CBI yesterday raided 18 places in Odisha, New Delhi and Mumbai, including the houses of Rajya Sabha member Pyarimohan Mohapatra, in connection with the chit fund scam involving the Seashore Group.
Mohapatra’s houses in Bhubaneswar and New Delhi were raided, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official said in New Delhi.
“The CBI conducted raids at two places each in Delhi and Mumbai while 16 places were raided in Odisha,” the official said.
The official said separate CBI teams raided the residences and offices of two retired IAS officials, industrialists and brokers through whom cash transactions were made and certain other close associates of Seashore Group CMD P K Dash.
In Odisha, the CBI conducted raids in Cuttack, Titlagarh in Bolangir district and Rourkela in Sundargarh district at the houses of various senior government officials and the houses and offices of the directors of the Seashore Group.
“Searches at the residences of private people led to the recovery of `1.46m in cash, two gold biscuits of 50 grams each and certain incriminating documents. Some other incriminating documents recovered from the premises of other people are being scrutinised,” the official said.
The CBI had earlier registered a case against the group of companies, its managing director and others in the alleged multi-crore rupee chit fund scam on the directions of the Supreme Court.
IANS
