We request restaurants not to sell roasted chicken amid bird flu: NDMC
New Delhi, Jan 12: North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) Mayor Jai Prakash has said that ward public health inspectors will visit restaurants and request them not to sell roasted chicken amid bird flu scare.
"We will form monitoring committees in all six zones in North Delhi and also set up monitoring committees in livestock markets," he said at a meeting with senior officers of NDMC.
Mayor further said that "We are going to instruct ward public health inspectors to visit restaurants selling roasted chicken and request them not to sell it until the problem of bird flu is over in Delhi."
As the bird flu cases were detected across ten states in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said poultry farms, zoos, water bodies will have to be constantly monitored to contain the disease.
Prime Minister Modi also asked all states to remain on alert to control the spread of the disease.
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"Poultry
farms,
zoos,
water
bodies
have
to
be
constantly
monitored
to
control
the
spread
of
bird
flu,"
said
Prime
Minister
Modi
today
while
interacting
with
the
chief
ministers
of
all
the
states
ahead
of
the
first
phase
of
the
nationwide
COVID-19
vaccination
programme.
Bird
flu
has
been
confirmed
in
Kerala,
Rajasthan,
Himachal
Pradesh,
Gujarat,
Haryana,
Uttar
Pradesh,
Madhya
Pradesh,
Delhi,
and
Maharashtra.