27 New Dengue Cases Surfaced In Pindi

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Rawalpindi: As many as 27 new dengue cases were reported in Rawalpindi during the last 24 hours, raising the tally of confirmed cases to 1,992 in the district.

Among the new cases, ten of each have arrived from the Potohar town urban and Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi area, five from Chaklala Cantonment, and one from the Gujjar Khan area, informed District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC) Dr Sajjad Mehmood on Tuesday.

Presently, 101 patients are admitted to district hospitals, of which 72 are confirmed cases, while 1,919 positive patients are discharged after treatment.

Dr Sajjad stated that district health facilities has allocated 228 beds for dealing with the dengue patients, while three admitted patients are in critical condition.

During indoor surveillance in the previous 24 hours, the teams checked 16,759 houses and found larvae in 547 homes. Similarly, while checking 6,352 places, the teams found larvae at 93 sites during outdoor surveillance.

The district administration has registered 37 FIRs, issued tickets to 11, sealed one premise, and imposed a fine of Rs 200,500 against the violations of dengue SOPs during the last 24 hours, further said Mehmood.