A 70- year- old from Tehri district has died of dengue as the number of those afflicted by the dreaded vector-borne disease continues to rise in the state. While the patient had died on Wednesday his sample has been found positive for the disease on Friday. The number of the suspected patients of the disease has mounted up to 192 on Friday as 20 new cases have been reported on the day. Two persons have so far succumbed to dengue in the state. The shocking fact is that in both the cases, the results of the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ( ELISA) tests, the confirmatory test for dengue, came after their deaths.
In Dehradun district, six new cases have been reported by the health department on Friday. The district vector- borne disease officer Subhash Joshi said that 54 people have so far been found positive for the disease in Dehradun. He added that the health department is working in synergy with the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun for control the disease. He urged the people not allow water to collect at and near their homes and also to destroy breeding grounds of mosquito.