Delhi's Dengue Death Toll Rises to 15, Highest in 6 Years: Govt Data

Six more people succumbed to dengue in Delhi, taking the national capital's total dengue death count to 15, this year. Image used for representative purposes. 

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Six more people succumbed to dengue in Delhi, taking the national capital's total dengue death count to 15, this year, reported news agency PTI citing a report released by the city's civic body on Monday, 6 December.

The number of dengue cases in the city, meanwhile rose to over 8,900.

Government data indicates that this is the highest death toll in the last six years.

As per the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, the official dengue death count stood at nine in Delhi till 29 November. The nine victims, reportedly included a minor boy and a three-year-old girl.

As per the official records, in 2016 Delhi had seen only 10 deaths due to dengue. The city reportedly witnessed two dengue deaths in 2019, four in 2018, and ten each in 2016 and 2017.

According to the report, the cumulative dengue cases reported at the national capital in the previous years were 4,431 (2016), 4,726 (2017), 2,798 (2018), 2,036 (2019), and 1,072 (2020).

The city had seen a massive dengue outbreak in 2015, however, when the total dengue cases crossed 10,600 by October itself, making it the worst outbreak of the disease in Delhi since 1996.

(With inputs from PTI)