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Dengue on decline in Delhi with fall in temperature

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 6:29 AM IST

In the past few days, the number of cases daily was in thirties.

With 27 fresh cases, the total cases have risen to 1980, out of which 17 originated from outside the capital.

All the cases were reported from East, South and North Delhi Corporation areas.

So far, four persons have died here due to dengue in the capital.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation reported the maximum of 773 cases, while 631 cases were detected from North Delhi Municipal Corporation area and 499 from East Delhi Municipal Corporation region.

Other cases were reported from NDMC and Delhi cantonment areas.

Last year, 976 cases were reported and five deaths took place while in 2010, a total of 5,994 dengue cases and eight deaths were recorded in the capital.

  

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First Published: Nov 26 2012 | 4:15 PM IST

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