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Six fresh cases of dengue have been reported in the last o🃏ne week in Delhi, taking the tally 🎀to 61, according to a civic report released on Monday.
Till March 26 this year, 55🤪 cases of dengue were recorded in the city.
Six fres💛h cases have been reported in the last one week, it said.
According to the civic report on vector-borne diseases, at leas𝄹t 61 dengue cases have been recorded this year.
The city had reported 23 cases in January, 16 in February and 22 in March. No cases have been recorded this m🌞onth till April 2.
F🐭or the January 1-April 2 period, seven cases were logged last year, six cases each in 2020🌺 and 2019, while 12 cases were logged in 2018 and 13 in 2017, the report stated.
Cases of vector-borne diseases are usually reported between July and November, but the period ﷽may stretch till mid-December.
Last year, 9,613 dengue cases, the high꧅est number of cases of the vector-borne disease, was recorded in Delhi in a year since 2015, while 23 deaths were also reported.
South Delhi Municipal Corporation Com☂missioner Gyanesh Bharti had issued advisory on prevention and control of vector-borne diseases in Delhi, last week.
The SDMC is🎃 the nodal agenc♊y for control of vector-borne diseases in the city.
The advisဣory had been sent to all offices of central, state governments, CPWD, PWD, DDA, Delhi Police, Delhi Jal Board and DMRC.
Registrars of all universities and deemed universities in Delhi, all associations of professionals and all associations of traders and Cham💟bers of Commerce have also been sent the advisory, the SDMC had said.
The commissioner had said that this year, there is a need to𒉰 concentrate more on educational institutions, colleges and schools as they were closed due to COVID-19 crisis, and were now reopening.
Bharti had also called upon RWAs, markꦐet association and th🦩e general public to take preventive measures failing which the outbreak of dengue and chikungunya may become uncontrollable.
In the years prior to 2021, the total dengꩲue cases reported were -- 4431 (2016), 4726 (2017), 2798 (2018), 2036 (2019) and 1072 (2020), according to the report.
In 2015, the city had witnessed a massive outbreak of dengue, when the number of dengue cases reported has crossed 10,600 in October🐼 itself🤪, making it the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in the national capital since 1996.
The number of dengue fatalities logged in 2021 was the highest in the national capital since 2016, when the officiallಞy reported death count was 10.
Delhi had recorded two deaths due to denꦉgue in 2019, four in 2018, and 10 each in 2017 and 2016.
The civic report, released on Monday, also stated that five cases of malaria and eight ca♛ses of chikungunya have been reported so far this year in Delhi.
