The national capital witnessed 82 dengue circumstances this year as of August 21, stated a civic report released on Monday. This is the highest quantity of dengue circumstances that Delhi has faced from the January to August period considering that 2017 when there have been a record 435 circumstances in the similar period. In August there have been 30 circumstances.
Going by the month-smart distribution, just after August, July had the highest circumstances this year at 16 followed by May, April, June, March. There have been no dengue circumstances on January. Dengue case tally in the last 5 years is 311 (2016), 435 (2017), 78 (2018), 75 (2019), and 51 (2020), according to the report.
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Dengue is a vector-borne illness and the mosquito larvae breed in clear, standing water. The current heavy rains are getting held for the spike in circumstances this year. The civic bodies have enhanced the pace of their fumigation drives at open web-sites, public spaces, and parks that have the most possibilities of waterlogging and turn into breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Other critical methods taken by the municipality are like arranging pumps, spraying kerosene to stay clear of conducive circumstances for the breeding of mosquitoes.
The civic bodies have also began fogging in neighborhoods exactly where vector-borne ailments have been reported.
According to the civic report released on the 1st week of August, 24 circumstances of malaria and practically 15 circumstances of chikungunya have also been reported.