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. 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.

Source: Pakistan Today October 28, 2019 14:15 UTC