Notwithstanding reports of the death of a 22-year-old civic body worker, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi maintained that there was no dengue death in the city so far, even as over a lakh households failed an inspection against mosquito breeding.
On September 1, a Domestic Breeding Checker (DBC) had died at Max Super Speciality Hospital at Shailmar Bagh here and the hospital authorities had confirmed it to be a case of the dreaded disease.
However, North Delhi Municipal Corporation public relations officer Yogendra Singh Mann said, "Since the deceased was diagnosed through rapid kit test and not through ELISA test, which is permissible for the MCD as per the central government ruling, our tally is still zero."
1,00,061 households have been found positive for mosquito breeding while spraying so far, has been done in 3,92,168 houses, according a report released by MCD today.
Meanwhile, the dengue cases reported so far this month stands at 93, against 142 in August.
Though August had registered the highest number of dengue cases (142), with 93 cases in first nine days only in September, cases are likely to rise in the coming weeks, Mann said.
For Delhi region, in the period till today, 240 dengue cases were reported, while 15 were reported from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and other states, the report said.
Figures for various corporations are - North (140), South (60) and East (22). Nine cases were reported from regions in Delhi outside the jurisdiction of MCD.
Most number of cases came were still from Rohini (51) and Narela (41) in North Zone.
Meanwhile preventive measure have been undertaken by the civic bodies but they said "the situation is not alarming yet".
"We have started fogging, spraying and terminator trains are also running to combat the disease. Sensitisation programmes are underway and we are going to schools and raising awareness among them also through classroom projects," Mann said.
The number of legal notices issued on detection of mosquito breeding on premises from January till date, stood at 84,463 as compared to 49,733 last year over the same period, the report said.
