RAWALPINDI: The dengue tally reached 1,391 positive cases with the arrival of 37 more patients during the last 24 hours in the district.
District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood, Tuesday said that 19 patients had arrived from the Potohar town urban area, 10 from the Municipal Corporation, six from Chaklala Cantonment and two from Rawalpindi Cantonment area.
He informed that 1,294 confirmed patients had been discharged after recovery while 122 patients were admitted to the district’s health facilities of which 97 were positive cases.
During the last 24 hours, Dr Sajjad said that the district administration had registered 20 FIRs, issued tickets to six, sealed one premise, and a fine of Rs 15,000 was imposed against the violations of dengue SOPs.
During indoor surveillance, in the last 24 hours, the teams checked 17,064 houses and larvae were found in 1,060 homes. Similarly, he added that while checking 6,167 places, the teams found larvae at 130 sites during outdoor surveillance.