In August, the nationwide capital reported 75 circumstances of dengue. (Representational)
New Delhi:
The nationwide capital has registered a spurt in dengue circumstances with the full variety of circumstances of the vector-borne illness climbing to over 240 in Delhi up to now this 12 months, in line with a civic physique report launched on Monday.
In the final one week, 39 new circumstances have been reported.
And, out of the 244 circumstances recorded until September 3 this 12 months, 75 had been reported in August.
It can also be the best variety of dengue circumstances logged in the course of the January 1-September 3 interval, since 2017, when the corresponding determine was 829.
A senior Municipal Corporation of Delhi official stated, the rising circumstances of dengue is “matter of concern for us” and “we are working on measures to combat it”.
Till August 27, Delhi had logged 205 dengue circumstances. As many as 244 dengue circumstances have been recorded in Delhi up to now this 12 months, the report stated.
According to the MCD report, the town recorded 23 dengue circumstances in January, 16 in February, 22 in March, 20 in April, 30 in May, 32 in June and 26 in July and 75 in August.
No loss of life has been reported up to now this 12 months because of the illness, it added.
In 2018, Delhi had reported 137 dengue circumstances in the course of the January 1-September 3 interval, in line with the report.
The figures in 2019, 2020 and 2021 had been — 122; 96 and 124 respectively.
MCD is taking a number of management measures i.e., public consciousness, authorized actions, involvement of inter-sectoral departments like DJB, Irrigation & Flood management Department, PWD, CPWD, railways, horticulture, DMRC, DDA, ASI, police, training, amongst others, the civic physique stated.
The company has issued 77,538 authorized notices and have filed 26,320 prosecutions on this connection. It has additionally “imposed administrative charges on 10,438 owners of houses or buildings and Rs 23,28,700 have been collected as administrative charges,” it stated in a press release.
Beat-wise discipline areas have been allotted to all of the DBCs (dengue breeding checking workers) to impart well being training adopted by house-to-house inspection for breeding detection and destruction of mosquito larvae, the MCD stated.
“DBCs have carried out 2,24,94,105 house visits and mosquito-breeding was found at 96,982 houses, and subsequently 8,28,707 houses were sprayed with insecticide, and larvivorous fishes were introduced at 112 points,” the assertion stated.
The nationwide capital has additionally recorded 49 circumstances of malaria and 14 circumstances of chikungunya this 12 months, the report stated.
Cases of vector-borne ailments are often reported between July and November, generally stretching until mid-December.
Civic officers stated dengue circumstances had been recorded sooner than normal this 12 months because of climate circumstances which are congenial for mosquito breeding.
Last 12 months, 9,613 dengue circumstances had been recorded within the nationwide capital, the best since 2015, together with 23 deaths — the utmost since 2016.
Ten deaths every had been reported because of dengue in 2016 and 2017, 4 in 2018 and two in 2019.
According to official information, 4,431 dengue circumstances had been recorded in Delhi in 2016, 4,726 in 2017, 2,798 in 2018, 2,036 in 2019 and 1,072 in 2020.
In 2015, the town had witnessed a large dengue outbreak, with the variety of circumstances crossing 10,600 in October. It was Delhi’s worst dengue outbreak since 1996.
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