Mumbai: The case of dengue fever has seen a leap more than sixfold in this city compared to last year, when the hit pandemic and the number is on a low record.
According to the latest numbers, cases of dengue fever almost reached the pre-pandemic level.
The only silver layer is that deaths are recorded in one digit.
BMC released a consolidated chart of diseases related to monsoons that showed dengue cases, after going down to 129 years ago, has surged to 821.
Chikungunya, transmitted by the same mosquitoes with bloody fever, has shown a burst, has shown a burst, has shown Bursts, have shown bursts, have shown bursts, have shown spurt too.
The city saw the number of malaria and H1N1 infections normally.
Surprisingly, enteric disease, including gastroenteritis and hepatitis A, remains low for the second year in a row.
Overall, Monsun’s disease claimed seven lives this year, down from 12 in 2020 and 20 in 2019.
Between January and November, the city has recorded 821 cases and 3 bloody deaths for 129 cases and 3 cases last year.
In 2019 there were 920 cases and 1,003 in 2018.
The drastic decline in testing and the lack of people’s mobility for months in 2020 was the main reason for last year’s low number.
“With these factors taken plus intermittent rainfall and climate conditions, return cases as usual,” said Rajan Naringrekar, BMC insecticide officers.
He said the indoor breeding had become the biggest challenge to curb dengue mosquito breeding.
“Also, the slums in Mumbai collectively have more than 18 lakh drums that store water.
Each of them can be a potential source,” he said.
Chikungunya, other viral diseases spread by Aedes Egypt’s mosquitoes which transmitted dengue fever, seeing bursts with 60 cases.
BMC said it was the only disease they thought it would rise in 2021.
Interestingly, malaria did not see the extent to where the dengue drop saw last year.
Mumbai recorded more cases (5,007) in 2020 compared to 4,357 in 2019.
This year also, malaria has affected 4,813 people but has not caused death according to the record.
The most interesting is a gastroenteritis curve.
Mumbai recorded 7,000-8,000 gastroenteritis cases every year.
It fell to 2,549 years ago because most roadside restaurants and unclashed drinking water sources were not accessed.
But with life and routine work back normal, it will not appear.
In 2021, 2,564 cases have been reported, almost 70% dropped compared to pre-pandemic times.
Hepatitis A has witnessed a big decline.
258 cases have been recorded; 263 recorded in 2020.