As rains lash state dengue spreads its fangs in 4 dists
- | Monday | 3rd September, 2018
Of the number, 1800 dengue cases were reported from Visakhapatnam district including 700 cases from GVMC.“Visakhapatnam district registered 1800 cases this year against 980 last year. Chief minister would hold teleconference with any of the medical officer in the region on Monday to check the progress. The village health staff were asked to conduct Village Walk in every Dengue hit village.Chief Minister held video-conference with the collectors of all these four districts over the cases. He said that temperature and humidity in the city this monsoon season favoured the growth of the dengue mosquitoes - Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes.“The mosquitoes live and born in fresh water so there would be no link with the sanitary conditions of the city. We are taking all our possible measures to control the situation,” Visakhapatnam district medical and health officer Dr R Ramesh said.Collector Pravin Kumar said that he held a teleconference with the medical and health staff in mandal level.
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