There is no respite to the residents of Dehradun and nearby areas from dengue. On Monday, the health department reported 52 new cases of the disease in Dehradun.
With the number of patients affected by the disease in Dehradun this season has mounted to 3,462. In Dehradun alone six persons have so far died from dengue.
Meanwhile, the number of patients in Uttarakhand reached to 5,670 on the day with the department reporting 145 new cases.
The district vector-borne diseases officer of Dehradun, Subhash Joshi said teams of health department organised anti dengue camp at Khurbura and undertook source reduction activities in Rishikesh on Monday.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito.
The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decrease drastically which may prove fatal for the patient.