Kolkata: The mosquito net has disappeared from several neighborhood bed shops after a burst suddenly in a request borne for fear of fever that has gripped a pandemic after a pandemic.
Bulk orders placed by Kolkata Municipal Corporation have also highlighted requests.
Improve opportunities, shops have hiking prices.
Some shops in Hatiban and Gifiah run out of mosquito nets and have to order after they fail to anticipate an increase in demand.
“Usually, we sell around 25-30 mosquito nets during this season and have 20-odd stock again.
But this time, all shares expired this week.
We now get fresh stock,” said Dhiren Das, a salesman at the bed shop in HatiBagan.
In the center of city mosquito net in Chetla, where stores do wholesale and retail business, sales of almost 8% -10%.
“People seem to suddenly realize the use of mosquito nets,” said Sarkar Swapan who managed a shop there.
Park Circus Resident Sneha Mukherjee is among many who have started using mosquitoes.
“I last used about three decades ago.
The only alternative is a strangling mosquito coil.
But after the introduction of the mat and liquid repellent, the use of mosquito nets stopped.
But with a fever caused so much anxiety since the pandemic, I decided to return to the mesh mesh , “he said.
Recognizing that the symptoms that overlap from covid, malaria, dengue fever and flu make it difficult to understand what is happening until the diagnostic test is carried out, the doctor says people must take precautions to mosquito bites just like wearing masks against Covid.
Nizam Khan, who was sitting at a wholesale five-decade wholesale shop in Chetla, said the KMC order was added to Spurt’s request this year.
Worried about the increase in malaria cases and dengue fever, KMC ordered 20,000 mosquito nets for distribution among the residents of slums and sidewalks.
“We have distributed it in an affected area with the help of the police,” said a KMC official.
This year, 8,000 people in four borough had been tested positive malaria, a 60% increase against last year.
More than 60% of these cases are falciparum or malignant malaria.
Some areas where high-infected amounts include Burrabazar, Jorabagan, Beadon Street, Rabindra Sarani, College Street, Elliot Road, Itly, Park Circus, Taltala, Amherst Street and Bidhan Sarani.
Likewise, the case of dengue fever also rose by around 1,000 people testing positive.