The steel city, which has been recently stung by Japanese encephalitis, is yet to get the medical kit from National Institute of Virology (NIV) for conducting confirmatory tests.

The district surveillance office has written thrice to the Pune institute, which had sent teams to Jamshedpur twice after the outbreak of chikungunya and dengue. With suspected cases of vector-borne Japanese encephalitis touching 60, the East Singhbhum district health department is now sending blood samples to RIMS in Ranchi for confirmatory tests.