Overview
- India and WHO report two laboratory‑confirmed cases — both 25‑year‑old nurses at a Barasat hospital — verified on January 13 by the National Institute of Virology.
- WHO advises against travel and trade restrictions, assessing national, regional and global risk as low and sub‑national risk in West Bengal as moderate.
- Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Pakistan introduced temperature screening and other precautions, though experts say such checks mainly reassure and rarely stop spread.
- Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan issued a province‑wide alert directing hospitals to prepare isolation units and rapid response teams, with no Nipah cases detected in the country.
- Authorities caution against unverified social media claims of higher case counts, and public calls to move some ICC T20 World Cup matches to Sri Lanka have not led to any official changes.