The health authorities on Monday confirmed that as many as 82 new cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever were detected during the last 24 hours across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to Dengue Response Unit, the number of dengue positive cases in KP has soared to 6,350. The officials said that 25 new dengue cases were reported in Peshawar.
The DRU further said that 114 dengue patients were under treatment at various hospitals in the province. The authorities further said that 6,236 patients of mosquito-borne fever have been discharged from the hospitals after proper treatment.
Moreover, mosquito-borne disease dengue continued to play havoc with the lives of citizens as the count of dengue cases in Karachi in October had reached to 4,294, while the mosquito-borne disease had claimed 23 lives.
In Sindh overall count of the dengue patients had reached 7808, health officials said in the latest report.