11 dengue cases in a day spark alarm in Lucknow

LUCKNOW: Dengue continues to spread its tentacles in the city with as many as 11 new cases being reported in the city on Tuesday — the maximum cases in a single day this year. The dengue patients’ count in the city rose to 97 since July and 145 since January on Tuesday as 11 persons, including a six-year-old girl, tested positive for the virus.
Among fresh cases, seven were females and four males. They include two girls, aged 13 and 16 years, and a 63-year-old man. Two cases were from Ruchi Khand, one each from Salenagar, Aashiana, LDA colony, Rajni Khand, Shardanagar, Gomtinagar, Malihabad, Chinhat and Banglabazar. All patients tested positive at King George’s Medical University and are out of danger, said officials.

The district health officials ordered a probe into a suspected dengue death case. A 30-year-old teacher of a degree college, who tested positive and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital, died on Monday. The hospital said he died of a heart attack. “We consider a dengue case to be positive only when the test is done by an authorised lab, but we will probe and find the truth,” said additional chief medical officer, D K Bajpai. In its ongoing drive, the health department found larvae of aedes agypti at 56 places, including a police station.