Islamabad’s Dengue Outbreak: 107 Cases in a Day

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107 DAILY DENGUE CASES EMERGE IN ISLAMABAD AS DEADLY SEASON PERSIST. ISLAMABAD: The federal capital has conceded 107 new dengue cases on Wednesday as the mosquito-borne virus takes the country by storm with the city alone recording nine deaths in the ongoing season, ARY News reported.The total cases comprise the numbers of both, rural and urban areas with 53 and 54 infections respectively in the past 24-hour period today, confirmed the health department official.

Seeing the violent surge in the breakbone fever cases, the Islamabad administration has established dengue isolation wards in at least four government hospitals to control the symptoms and stabilize the infected.DENGUE DEATH TOLL REACHES FIVE, 79 NEW CASES REPORTED IN KPOn the other hand, as many as 79 new cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) during the past 24 hours.

According to the provincial health department, at least 79 people have been diagnosed with dengue today. The province has so far recorded up to 4,365 dengue cases, whereas, a total of five people have died of the virus.Meanwhile, Punjab health authorities have reported 374 dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in the province in last 24 hours.

According to the agency, there were 2138 dengue patients in the capital after the 33 new cases were added. Of those, 1,365 cases were reported from rural areas and 773 instances from urban areas.

Of the total number of patients, the office reported that 34% were female and 66% were male. It also stated that 453 patients were in the 40–59 age range, 413 in the 10–19 age group, 145 in the 60–75 age group, and 107 in the 0–9 age group. The ages of the other patients were unknown.

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