Masks, thermal cameras and passenger screening – these unnerving reminders of the dark days of the Covid-19 pandemic made an unwelcome return to airports in a number of Asian cities this week amid reports of an outbreak of the incurable Nipah virus in India.
Although Nipah does not spread with anything like the ease of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid – health surveillance and travel monitoring has been increased in Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan after five cases were reported in West Bengal.
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