The number of dengue cases in state are still trickling in despite on set of winters in right earnest. The State health department on Wednesday reported that the number of dengue affected people in the state has reached to 2015 this season. On the day four new patients were found positive for the disease in the confirmatory test for dengue, the Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) test. Incidentally all these cases were reported from state capital Dehradun.
The State Programme Officer for National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) Dr Kiran Bisht said that till date 1390 cases have been found positive for the disease in Dehradun while 430 cases have been found positive in Haridwar district. Nainital district has so far reported 167 cases while 28 cases of dengue have been reported from predominantly mountainous district of Pauri till date. The data however also revels decline in the number of patients of the disease admitted in the isolation wards of the hospitals.
The department claims that only six patients of the disease are presently undergoing treatment in the hospitals and all these patients are admitted in the associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC). The district Vector Borne Diseases officer, J P Bahuguna claimed that the disease is on wane in the state capital. He said that both the minimum and maximum temperature has taken a plunge and in such a situation the dengue virus becomes non infective. On being asked about reporting of new cases in district, Bahuguna claimed that most of these cases are old ones.