New Delhi: Nineteen people have tested positive for dengue virus raising the total number of those hit by the mosquito-borne disease in the national capital to 776.
"Hospitals across the city have diagnosed 19 people with dengue fever since yesterday. With this, the total number of people affected by it is now 776," said Dr V K Monga, chairman of Municipal Corporation of Delhi`s public health committee.
Cases of mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise in the city. "Chikungunya cases too are rising now. Last year at this time of the year, the number of cases was 33 and it is 44 this year till now," he said.
With more and more people testing positive for Japanese encephalitis in the city, the Delhi government and the MCD have already decided to collect 500 blood samples of pigs to check presence of virus in them.
Fourteen Japanese encephalitis infection cases have been detected in the city in two months.
PTI