PESHAWAR: A total of 5,005 dengue cases have been reported from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa thus far this year, the Dengue Response Unit (DRU) informed on Friday.
Around 75 new cases of dengue fever were reported and out of which 11 surfaced from Peshawar alone.
As per the date of DRU, 143 dengue patients are being treated at various hospitals in Peshawar.
Previously, the health department of Punjab had confirmed that 204 new patients of dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals across the province during the last 24 hours.
A total of 5650 dengue patients were reported this year, including 140 new cases were reported in Rawalpindi, 24 in Lahore so far, officials from the provincial health department told.
The health department explained that the surveillance teams have checked more than 274,320 places in rural parts and overall 76,580 urban places to find any active dengue larvae.
The teams registered around 124 cases over finding the presence of dengue larvae besides arresting 37 people, the department said.
