With four new cases reported last week, the number of patients suffering from malaria reached to 19 this year. Last year not even a single case of malaria reported till the time. According to SDMC mosquito-breeding has been reported in at least 118 households and 393 legal notices have been issued this year.
Besides 15 number of prosecution has been launched by the civic bodies till 29 February. At least 22 cases of dengue and 14 cases of Chikungunya also reported this year.
A senior north Corporation official said that all the preventive steps have been taken to reduce the cases. "The key to prevention of Dengue is ensuring there is no clean stagnant water in homes and around, which does not allow the Aedes mosquitoes to breed, and therefore dengue cannot spread," he said, adding that zonal officials have been instructed to keep making people aware by organizing seminars, functions in schools and colleges.
