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ISLAMABAD: Up to 8,933 cases of dengue have been reported throughout the country, while 16 people lost their lives during the current year. <\/p>\n
In informing the media here on Thursday, the Chief of the Disease Surveillance Division of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Dr. Rana Safdar, said 2,132 cases of Sindh, 2,076 of Punjab, 1,772 of Balochistan, 1,612 were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,206 of the federal government. capital and 92 of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. <\/p>\n
The twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been severely affected by the disease, while 43 cases were reported in Punjab from other provinces. <\/p>\n
"Up to eight victims of Sindh, three from Islamabad and Baluchistan, and two from Punjab have been reported," he said. <\/p>\n
Dr. Safdar said that within Rawalpindi, case clusters had been observed in the Airport Housing Society, the Gulbahar Scheme, the Wakeel Colony, Dhoke Munshi and Kot Jabbi, while Mohra Nagial and UC cases were reported in Islamabad Kirpa <\/p>\n
Of the samples analyzed by the NIH of twin cities, DEN2 [type-2 of dengue virus] It had been isolated as was the case in the 2017 outbreak as well, he added. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe field response is underway at the critical points identified in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, focusing on awareness and vector control, that is, the distribution of mosquito nets between confirmed cases, vector control through management activities of Larvae sources in homes, covering \/ sealing open water containers and distribution of chemical products larvicides, door-to-door distribution of handouts \/ manual bills, mosque announcements and group meetings in the affected community, \u201dsaid Dr. Safdar. <\/p>\n
He added that after a meeting chaired by the commissioner of Rawalpindi, private and semi-governmental hospitals had allocated 260 beds for the treatment of dengue patients. Holy Family Hospital has received the task of training the staff of those hospitals. <\/p>\n
In response to a question, Dr. Safdar said that the Division of Disease Surveillance and Field Epidemiology was activated on September 6 to monitor progression and that a daily report of the situation was being disseminated. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Seasonal Alert and Alert Letter and the Prevention and Control Notice have been widely disseminated and made available on the NIH website. A 10-member team that has epidemiologists, entomologists and communication experts on board is notified to provide technical support to provincial health departments as requested, \u201dhe said. <\/p>\n
He added that dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection transmitted by female mosquitoes of the Aedes Aegypti species and, to a lesser extent, Ae. Albopictus This mosquito also transmits chikungunya infection, yellow fever and Zika.<\/p>\n
Posted on Dawn, September 20, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1506243\/9000-dengue-cases-reported-this-year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISLAMABAD: Up to 8,933 cases of dengue have been reported throughout the country, while 16 people lost their lives during the current year. In informing the media here on Thursday, the Chief of the Disease Surveillance Division of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Dr. Rana Safdar, said 2,132 cases of Sindh, 2,076 of Punjab, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}