Kolkata: With the retreat of the monsoon from the state, the dengue state of affairs within the metropolis and different south Bengal districts improved a lot because the variety of instances reported within the final week of October and first few days of November, is much less.

Sources stated that the town registered greater than 11,000 dengue instances until October 20 since January 2023. During the Durga puja week, Kolkata noticed round 1,300 recent instances. In the previous one week the determine dropped to beneath 1,000. Experts really feel that the state of affairs improved after the monsoon retreated. Health division sources stated the overall variety of contaminated individuals in 16 South Bengal districts and the ‘health districts’ crossed 60,000 until October, this yr. Sources additionally stated almost 8,000-9,000 individuals received contaminated with dengue in every week on a number of events previously. Even on this yr, the variety of instances was extra in villages. The consultants have identified that the fundamental traits of villages are altering and this might have led to the rise in an infection. The variety of whole contaminated sufferers has crossed the 60,000-mark this season. North 24-Parganas has registered the best variety of dengue instances among the many districts to this point.

Fresh spells of rain that hit a number of North and South Bengal districts have aggravated dengue menace within the metropolis in October. The variety of contaminated instances has crossed 15,000 within the case of North 24-Parganas whereas Kolkata to this point has seen 11,000 instances. The variety of contaminated individuals additionally crossed 7,000 marks in Murshidabad adopted by Nadia over 5,000 and Hooghly over 4,000.

The Health division has been monitoring the state of affairs below numerous civic our bodies that are conducting anti-larvae operations in numerous areas. The civic our bodies are additionally figuring out weak areas and localities and sharing the data with the well being division. Public well being consultants in Bengal earlier claimed that dengue will subside after it stops raining and the temperature drops beneath 15 levels.