The dengue virus claimed another seven lives in the provincial capital on Saturday. According to reports, Riffat Bibi, 45, died in Jinnah Hospital while Muhammad Aslam, 55, lost his life owing to complications due the fever in Services Hospital. Meanwhile, INP reported Muhammad Ijaz, 47, a resident of Davis Road died at the Mayo Hospital late on Friday night. Another dengue victim, 46-year-old Kishwar Khatoon, resident of Sanda, lost her fight against the disease. Muhammad Afzal, 30, resident of Kot Khwaja Saeed died at Ganga Ram Hospital. Two dengue patients from Model Town, Ahsan-ul-Haq and Muhammad Hussain, died at Ittefaq Hospital. The official death toll reached 332 in Punjab of which 288 died in the Lahore alone whereas independent sources claimed that 362 people had died in the provincial capital alone while there was no system in place for recording data in other cities.
