ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (NNN-APP) – Four more people died of dengue fever, in Pakistan’s east Punjab province, over the last 24 hours, raising the death toll of the disease-infected people to 137 this season, an official with the provincial health department said yesterday.
A total of 108 new cases of the disease were reported in the province over the last 24 hours, Secretary of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab, Imran Sikandar, told media.
He added that, during the Sept-Nov season, the province witnessed a total of 24,744 cases from different areas of the province.
Urban localities of the province had remained the hotspots of the disease, including the provincial capital of Lahore, which also reported 82 of the 108 fresh cases over the last 24 hours.
A decrease in daily new cases has been witnessed over the last few days, during which the number of new cases dropped to less than 200 from the earlier tally of over 500, in the province.
Consistent preventive and curative activities by the provincial health department and the temperature drop, contributed to the decrease in new cases of the disease.– NNN-APP
