Coimbatore conservancy workers compete in dengue source reduction league
The Coimbatore Corporation has launched a 10-day 'Dengue Prevention League' to motivate sanitation workers to remove mosquito breeding sources. Teams from five city zones are competing to collect the highest number of potential breeding sites, such as discarded plastic and containers.
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The Coimbatore Corporation has launched a 10-day Dengue Prevention League (DPL), a competition among conservancy workers from its five zones aimed at intensifying dengue source reduction across the city.
The league, which began on August 4, will continue till August 14. Teams representing the north, south, east, west and central zones are competing in a round-robin format, with each zone facing the other once.
In the first two matches, the east and west zones emerged winners. The East Zone defeated the North Zone on Tuesday after collecting 2,43,986 potential mosquito breeding sources, compared with 2,12,067 sources collected by the North Zone. On Wednesday, the West Zone emerged winner against the Central Zone by collecting 2,88,403 sources, while the Central Zone collected 2,43,595 sources. The two-day collection total stood at 9,88,051 sources.
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