The health department has been "validating" reports of new Dengue cases and no figure on the number of people infected by the vector-borne disease was issued, West Bengal Director of Health Services Biswaranjan Satpathy told PTI.
Till August 25, 5,639 people were infected by Dengue in West Bengal since January, Satpathy had said.
Most of the Dengue cases have been reported from districts like Howrah, Hooghly's Sreerampore municipal area, North 24 Parganas' South Dum Dum and South 24 Parganas, while a few isolated cases were reported from Darjeeling, Coochbehar and North Dinajpur districts.
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