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No fresh dengue death in Bengal, 132 new cases

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Aug 10 2016 | 10:13 PM IST
There was no report of any dengue death in West Bengal in the past 24 hours, but 132 new cases of infection were reported from different districts, a senior health official said today.
The toll remained at 14 while the number of people infected by the mosquito-borne disease rose to 1,842 in the state since January, Director of Health Services Biswaranjan Satpathy told PTI.
"We have no report of any death due to dengue. However, there have been a few cases of dengue infection from different districts of the state," he said.
According to him, most cases were reported from Hooghly district's Serampore and North 24-Parganas district while there were some cases in Malda, Nadia, Darjeeling, and South 24-Parganas districts.

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First Published: Aug 10 2016 | 10:13 PM IST

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