26 Fresh Dengue Cases Reported In 24 Last hours

News Desk

Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi district’s total tally has reached 2,454 confirmed cases, with 26 more cases arriving in the last 24 hours.

District Coordinator of Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC) Dr Sajjad Mehmood, said that, among the new cases,13 cases have arrived from Potohar town urban,seven from Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi, three from Rawalpindi Cantonment and one from Chaklala Cantonment area.

Presently, 55 patients are admitted to district hospitals, of which 39 are confirmed cases, while 2,414 were discharged after treatment, Dr Mehmood added.

During indoor surveillance, in the last 24 hours, the teams checked 9,096 houses and larvae were found in 135 homes. Similarly, while checking 4,597 places, the teams found larvae at 22 sites during outdoor surveillance.

Dr Sajjad informed that the district administration has registered 16 FIRs, issued tickets to eight and imposed a fine of Rs 8,000 against the violations of dengue SOPs during the last 24 hours.