Chief Executive Officer (CEO) District Health Authority Dr Faiza Kanwal on Tuesday said the present spell of rains had increased the threat of dengue larvae breeding which needed to be tackled on an emergency basis as the Met Office had forecast more rain in the week.
Talking to media, the CEO said that authority had devised an effective micro plan to control the spread of dengue keeping in view the year, 2019 statistics.
She informed that 3613 cases had been tested positive in 2019,12 in 2020 while only 313 confirmed cases had so far been surfaced in the district since the January of this year.
Giving details about the indoor and outdoor surveillance which had been carried out from September 27 to October 4 in all tehsils of the district ,Dr Faiza told that 225 teams had checked 45,289 houses during indoor surveillance in Potohar town.
