LUCKNOW: The city’s dengue tally this year inched closer to 500 on Friday with 16 more cases reported from various parts.
Fresh cases were reported from Aliganj, Indiranagar, Alambagh, Itaunja, Sarojininagar and NK Road. They included seven women. All patients are stable and recuperating in their homes.
Of the 496 cases reported since January, an alarming 84% (416) surfaced in the past 38 days — an average of one case every two hours.
Health officers said that the rise in mosquito population during the rainy season was behind the spike in dengue cases.
Meanwhile, larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the dengue virus, were found at 27 houses after scanning 2,795 houses in Rajajipuram, Alambagh, Faizullahganj, Alamnagar among other localities.
“Larvae were found in desert coolers, flower pots, and abandoned objects,” said Dr KP Tripathi, in charge of the vector-borne disease unit.
