New Delhi, Nov 7 (UNI) After over two months of closure, Delhi Zoo will reopen for visitors on Saturday, according to officials of the Environment Ministry. The zoo authorities stated that usual safety and preventive measures will be followed.

Following reports of the Avian influenza virus in a waterbird aviary on August 28, the facility was closed indefinitely to the public two days later. The outbreak that started in the last week of August claimed the lives of 12 birds between August 24 and September 6.

Nine painted storks and three black-headed ibis succumbed. Post-mortem reports confirmed that seven of these birds died due to the H5N1 virus.

Three other animals died in the zoo premises in the following weeks, including two Zebra finches and Shankar, the Zoo’s lone African Elephant

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