Over 4m containers inspected during dengue drive
Authorities in Islamabad have inspected over four million containers to combat the spread of dengue fever. Field workers are actively destroying larvae and identifying breeding sites to control the mosquito-borne disease.
Why it matters
Proactive public health measures are essential to preventing a large-scale dengue outbreak in a densely populated capital city.
ISLAMABAD - More than four million indoor containers have been inspected and over 209,000 dengue larvae detected and destroyed across the federal capital as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) intensified surveillance to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne disease. In an exclusive conversation with the APP, a CDA spokesperson said on Thursday that around 1.24 million surveillance activities had been conducted in urban areas up to epidemiological week 37, with 582,680 houses and 4,006,378 indoor containers inspected.
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