New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) At least 16 new cases of dengue were reported Monday, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the national capital to 391, a health department official said.
“There were 16 new, confirmed cases of dengue today (Monday). The numbers are rising. However, there is no need to panic since last year the numbers had been higher than this,” N.K. Yadav, chief medical officer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), told IANS.

On Sunday, the total number of cases reported stood at 366.

In the past few months, there have been two deaths recorded due to dengue - a 15-year-old boy and a nine-year-old boy.

Yadav said temperatures were warmer this year due to less-than-normal rains during the monsoon and, therefore, there was not much breeding of mosquitoes. Last year till Nov 1, a total of 1,070 cases of dengue had been reported.

Besides the door-to-door checks, the MCD is also fumigating several places in the capital to curb mosquito breeding.

“We are well-prepared to handle dengue, and our domestic breeding checkers have been taking rounds of their respective areas since May,” Yadav said.