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NEW DELHI : Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on October 21, 2019, said that Delhiites are on course to defeating Dengue this year. Mr Jain also appealed to the residents of the national capital to keep up the prevention and awareness efforts against dengue for the next few weeks.

The Delhi government deeply appreciates the efforts of Delhiites in the ongoing Dengue prevention awareness campaign, which has resulted in the lowest number of Dengue cases in Delhi this year so far, in comparison to the last five years, he said.

The latest data released on October 21, 2019, shows that there have been 644 cases of Dengue in Delhi till now, whereas last year (2018) there had been 1020 cases of Dengue so far.

Mr Jain said :“The latest figures show that this year so far, the cases of Dengue have been the lowest in the last five years. I appeal to everyone to keep up the prevention and awareness efforts for the next few weeks.”

Mr Jain claimed that the data shows there has been no Dengue death in Delhi this year so far, whereas there had been four deaths last year and the number of unfortunate casualties due to this vector borne disease in preceding years had been in double figures.

The data shows that there has been a steady decline in cases of Dengue in Delhi since 2015, when the disease outbreak had claimed 60 lives. This year, Delhi has substantially controlled Dengue.