The State Capital continued to reel under the menace of dengue with 18 new cases of the disease reported by the health department on Friday. To add to the fear of the people more and more incidence of the disease are being reported from different localities of the city apart from dengue infested Patharibagh area.
With addition of 18 new Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) test positive cases the number of Dengue affected people in the Dehradun mounted to 241 on Friday.
The district Vector Borne diseases officer, JP Bahuguna said that the patients found positive on Friday belong to Patharibagh (3), THDC colony (03), lakhi Bagh Singhal Mandi, Bhandari Bagh, Banjarawala, Dl road and Vidhya Vihar. He said that 18 positive cases were found after checking samples of 91 suspected patients.
Bahuguna further informed that no samples were collected for ElISA test from the Patharibagh anti dengue camp on the day though 21 people had visited it. The presence of no suspected patient in the camp indicates that the incidence of the disease in Patharibagh is on a decline.
A total of 143 patients have been reported from this small locality since July 15.
The department has taken a total of 1053 samples of the suspected patients have been taken from dengue infested Patharibagh area from July 15 till date.