The health department said that Delhi reported six more deaths from dengue fever on Monday, bringing the total death toll in the capital to 23.
As of December 18, the official dengue death toll maintained by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation was 17.
The number of deaths from dengue fever this year is the highest in the capital since 2016, when the official death toll was 10. The number of deaths due to dengue fever in the years before 2020 is 2019; four in 2018; both 2017 and 2016 ranked 10th.
The health department further stated that this week, Delhi reported 130 new cases of vector-borne diseases, bringing the total to more than 9,500.
As of December 25 this month, Delhi has recorded a total of 1,269 cases of dengue fever.
In response to the increasing number of dengue fever cases, the Delhi High Court on Friday instructed local agencies, including three municipal companies, to form a task force to monitor and control mosquito infestations in the city. In previous years, the total number of reported dengue fever cases was 4,431 (2016), 4,726 (2017), 2,798 (2018), 2,036 (2019), and 1,072 (2020) according to municipal records.
Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh dealt a heavy blow to the authorities and added that someone must be responsible for the increase in cases.
In 2015, a large-scale dengue fever outbreak broke out in the city. The number of cases in a single month (October) exceeded 10,600, making it the most serious vector-borne disease outbreak in the country’s capital since 1996.
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