Ahmedabad: Almost mid-October and the city health department still wrestles with the threat of mosquitoes at Ahmedabad.
The overall density of mosquitoes in the city has not shown a lot of decline.
From the density of 3.48 mosquitoes per room in August, the density fell to 1.88 per room in September which has not yet become a substantial decline.
Data Density for the total October is being collected.
“Mosquito density must be ideally less than 1 per room.
The rain before September and early October and the temperature of the erratically helped mosquitoes to breed,” said a senior AMC official.
In August, AMC found the highest average mosquito density per room in Gota, Vejalpur, Jodhpur and Ramol – between 3.25 and 5.75 mosquitoes per room.
When health officials sought a deadly Aedes Aegypti density, they found in August that it had increased in these areas with density between 1 and 1.75 per room.
“We are worried that the density of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito in October once again went up to the August level.
At home, larvae in stagnant water found in used tires, plastic cans, unattended park pots, decorative fountains, and even defrost trays.
For three The last week, we found that unattended space in commercial buildings and factory units on the outskirts of the city have become an eternal outbreak for Mosquito Aedes Aegypti, “added the official.