RAWALPINDI:As many as 38 more dengue cases were reported in Rawalpindi during the last 24 hours, raising the tally of confirmed cases to 458.
District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood, on Thursday said that, among the new cases, 25 patients had arrived from Potohar town urban area, five from Rawalpindi Cantonment, two from Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi and Islamabad one of each patient reported from Chaklala Cantonment, Taxila Cantonment, Potohar rural and Kahutta.
He said that the district health authority had sealed 420 premises, registered 1,414 FIRs, issued challans to 1,398, notices to 6,124, and a fine of Rs 3,808,600 was imposed on violations of SOPs in various areas of the district from January 1, 2022, to till date.
He added that prevailing weather was suitable for breeding dengue larvae and asked the concerned to remove stagnant water in outdoor and house hold settings to stop mosquitoes from breeding.
Furthermore, the health official urged the residents to keep their water tanks clean and not to leave any place wet with stagnant water as water accumulation was a leading cause of mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever.