FRIDAY, 08 SEPTEMBER 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The number of dengue patients in the provisional State capital increased to 589 on Thursday with the health department reporting 27 new patients of the disease. The department also reported the death of two patients of the disease in the Synergy hospital on the day. A total of 11 patients have so far succumbed to the disease in the district so far.
The department collected 1691 samples of the patients for the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test on the day. A total of 112 of the disease are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of the district. As per the officials the 550 patients have recovered from the disease while one patient has died from the disease.
Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito. The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decreases drastically which may prove fatal for the patient. In Uttarakhand the disease is more prevalent in Dehradun, Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
