Tripura reports 255 cases of Dengue fever
Addressing a press conference this evening, disease surveillance officer Dr Deep Kumar Debbarma said that dengue cases this year has seen a spike compared to previous years.
Sounding an alert over the spread of Dengue, the Health Department of Tripura reported 255 cases of Dengue fever from six districts in the state on November 10. Of these 73 people are admitted to various hospitals.
Addressing a press conference this evening, disease surveillance officer Dr Deep Kumar Debbarma said that dengue cases this year has seen a spike compared to previous years.
“In 2017 the state recorded 127 dengue cases, in 2018 cases stood at 100, again 109 cases were reported in 2019, Likewise, 24 cases were detected in 2020. This year cases have gone up to 255, detected in Gomati, Sepahijala, Unakoti, South, and North districts of the state,” he said.
He further informed that in the last nine days, 161 cases were detected, of which 76 were from Gomati, 27 from Sepahijala, 1 case each in South and North districts, while 56 cases were detected from Unakoti district.
“Last Sunday we visited Killa and Atharabhola areas of Gomati district where we found that 95 percent of cases detected were from people engaged in rubber tapper occupation. Dengue cases are basically confined to urban and semi-urban areas, but now people in rural areas are also getting infected,” he said.
He also added that the number of cases may increase because the health department has intensified mass testing.
However, Debbarma also clarified that no dengue-related deaths have been reported till now.
Professor of Microbiology department, Dr Tapan Majumder, who was also present at the press conference, said that till 2017 the dengue cases were detected from travellers coming to the state from Delhi and Kolkata, but after 2017 without travel history cases started to show up in the state.
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