Pakistan: 2022 Dengue

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Pakistan reports 4 new deaths from dengue fever
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2022-11-05 17:52:16

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan continued to witness an increase in dengue fever cases as four more deaths were reported as a result of the disease in the last 24 hours in the South Asian country.

All the deaths were reported from the eastern Punjab province, the provincial health department said on Friday, adding that three of them were recorded in the provincial capital Lahore while one from Rawalpindi.

In total, Punjab reported 225 new cases in the past 24 hours. Lahore recorded 91 new cases, followed by Rawalpindi with 41 cases. The total number of dengue cases in the province this year has now gone up to 15,778.

In northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 279 more people were diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease, the provincial health department said on Friday evening. The number of active cases in the province currently stands at 1,587, while the total number of cases this year has reached 19,720...

 

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Source: https://www.app.com.pk/domestic/rawalpindis-dengue-tally-reaches-4735-cases/

Rawalpindi’s dengue tally reaches 4,735 cases
Fri, 25 Nov 2022, 3:27 PM

RAWALPINDI, Nov 25 (APP): The total tally of dengue in Rawalpindi had reached 4,735 cases, with the arrival of four more patients during the last 24 hours.

District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood Friday said that 31 patients had been admitted to three allied hospitals of the city, including 14 to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH), 13 to the District Headquarters Hospital and four to the Holy Family Hospital (HFH)...

 

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20 deaths reported from dengue in parts of Pakistan in 3 weeks
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2022-11-27 17:48:30

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were killed from dengue fever in different parts of Pakistan over the last three weeks as the number of cases keeps on increasing in the country, the local health departments reported.

During this period, around 15 deaths were reported from the eastern Punjab province while the southern Sindh and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces recorded three and two deaths, respectively, according to the latest figures released by the authorities on Saturday.

In the last 24 hours, four people died from the disease in Punjab, bringing to 45 the total death toll this year in the province, the provincial health department said on Saturday. The total number of dengue cases in the province this year has now gone up to 18,487...

 

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Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2389019/dengue-fatalities-rise-in-punjab

Dengue fatalities rise in Punjab
Number of patients hospitalised goes down from 1,067 to 355 in a month
Adnan Lodhi December 02, 2022

LAHORE:

Dengue fever claimed more lives in Punjab during November as compared to the total death toll of the previous 10 months despite a drastic decrease in the number of patients.

Official data shows that 27 people died due to dengue fever across the province during the past month, raising the death toll during the ongoing year to 45.

However, there were also indications of an improvement in the overall situation as the number of new cases of the disease dropped to 3,768 in November from 8,500 in October.

The situation in the hospitals also improved substantially as 355 patients were undergoing treatment after admission to the facilities in the province on Wednesday as compared to 1,067 at the end of the previous month.

Of the total 355 patients, as many as 178 are admitted to hospitals in Punjab. The disease has cost the province 35 lives during the past two months...

 

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Source: https://arynews.tv/pakistan-sees-76210-dengue-cases-during-ongoing-year/

Pakistan registers 76,210 dengue cases, 136 deaths during ongoing year
December 6, 2022
Jahangir Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered as many as 76,210 dengue virus cases during the ongoing year, ARY News reported on Tuesday, quoting sources within National Institute of Health.

According to a detailed report prepared by the National Institute of Health (NIH), as many as 76,210 dengue virus cases with 136 deaths were reported countrywide from January 1 to December 5, 2022.

Sindh remains the highly infected province with 22,495 cases and 61 deaths of the mosquito-borne disease.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22,799 dengue virus cases with 18 deaths followed by Punjab with 18,797 cases and 45 deaths.

Islamabad reported 5,392 cases of dengue virus and six deaths. Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir reported 5,283 and 1,444 dengue cases, respectively...