New Delhi: More than 1,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the national capital this year, with more than 280 new cases recorded in the past week, according to the Civic report released on Monday.
Of the total number of cases of dengue fever recorded in Delhi this season, 665 has been recorded this month until October 23.
Cases of diseases transmitted through vectors have increased in the city in the last two weeks, and the first death because Delhi was recorded on October 18.
The deceased was identified as Mamta Kashyap, around 35, and was a resident of Sarita Vihar in South Delhi.
He died of bloody at the end of September at a private hospital here.
According to civilian reports on transmitted diseases through vectors released on Monday, one death because of dengue fever and a total of 1,006 cases of dengue have been recorded this season until October 23, which is the highest number of cases since 2018 for the same period.
The total number of cases this year until October 16 has been established in 723.
So, 283 new cases have been logged in in one week.
The number of cases reported for the period October 1, October 16 in the previous three years was – 489 (2020); 833 (2019) and 1,310 (2018), according to the report.
A total of 1,072 cases and one death were recorded throughout the year in 2020, according to the report releasd by Delhi Municipal Corporation, the Nodal Agency to sow data on the disease transmitted through vectors in the city.
The number of deaths from dengue fever in the year before 2020, has been established in – two (2019); Four (2018); 10 (2017); and 10 (2016), according to an official calculation managed by SDMC.
665 Cases reported in October to date, so far are the highest number of cases recorded in a month this year.
Distribution of Dengue’s Case-Seeds in 2021 stands as – January (0), February (2), March (5), April (10) and May (12), July (16) and August (72), according to the report.
In September this season, 217 cases were recorded, the highest number for this month in the last three years.
Last year, 188 cases of dengue fever were reported in the entire September, and 190 in 2019.
In the previous year, the appropriate numbers had been established at 374 (2018), 1103 (2017), 1,362 (2016) and 6,775 (2015) , According to the data distributed by the Delhi Health Department on September 22.
Bloody Mosquito larvae breed, water stands, while malaria people develop even in dirty water.
Cases of diseases transmitted through vectors are usually reported between July and November, but the period can stretch until mid-December.
According to the Civic report, 154 malaria cases and 73 cases of Chikungunya have also been reported until October 16 this year in Delhi.
In previous years, the total dengue case reported was – 4,431 (2016), 4,726 (2017), 2,798 (2018), 2036 (2019) and 1,072 (2020), according to the report.
Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya accompanied by high fever and therefore, the doctor felt that people might suspect that they had contracted Covid-19.
In the midst of a surge in dengue fever cases, three civil bodies have intensified their drives fogging and spraying them, even when officials on Friday claimed that there was a “sufficient stock” insecticide and medicine to fight the disease transmitted through vectors.
In 2015, the city had witnessed a large-scale fever outbreak, when the number of dengue cases reported had passed 10,600 in October itself, making it the worst outbreak of a disease transmitted through vectors in the national capital since 1996.