In the last week, about 1,170 instances of dengue fever have been reported in New Delhi, as India fights yet another medical catastrophe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year alone, the city has received reports of 2,708 instances. The government has ordered hospitals in New Delhi to utilize beds earmarked for COVID-19 patients for the consistent flow of dengue patients.
According to officials at the LNJP Hospital, some 100 patients with high fever were seen every day, with most of them testing positive for dengue fever. The scenario is similar in other hospitals around the metropolis, home to about 190 million people. According to a Health Ministry statement issued last week, a total of 1,16,991 dengue cases had been confirmed across the country. Dengue fever cases in India reached 1,88,401 in 2017, the highest number in 20 years.
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The first symptoms of this year’s dengue outbreak were discovered in late August, when a hospital in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, reported almost 38 fatalities due to a “mystery fever.” A health official in Uttrakhand said that 716 dengue cases had been reported this year. Rajasthan had over 13,000 instances this year, Haryana had over 8,000, while Tamil Nadu in the south had 3,750.
Dr Grover from Punjab said: “There was more rain this year; they were erratic. And the last rain we received was in October. All the conditions were favorable for the mosquitoes to breed.” Dengue incidences are predicted to decline as temperatures fall throughout northern India. “In the next couple of weeks, as the weather becomes cooler, mosquito breeding and virus transmission should go down, and that is the only way we could get a respite from this dengue surge,” stated Dr Gogoi of New Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
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