416 cases of dengue in Delhi

New Delhi, Nov 3 : The capital recorded 19 new cases of dengue Tuesday, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in New Delhi to 416, a health department official said.

"There were 19 new, confirmed cases of dengue Tuesday," Chief Medical Officer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) N.K. Yadav told IANS.

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

Last year till Nov 1, a total of 1,070 cases of dengue were 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.