LAHORE - Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) Secretary Imran Sikandar Baloch Tuesday said that during the last 24 hours, five confirmed cases of dengue were reported in Lahore, and no case was reported in any other district of the province.
In a press statement issued here, he said that 26,252 confirmed cases of dengue had been reported across the province so far while 18,494 confirmed cases of dengue were reported in Lahore. “A total of 35 patients are undergoing treatment across Punjab of whom 32 are in Lahore’s hospitals and three are in other districts of Punjab,” he added.
In the last 24 hours, as many as 336,068 indoor locations and 71,073 outdoor locations were checked across the Punjab while larvae were destroyed from 10 locations. In Lahore 29,545 indoor places and 5,349 outdoor locations were checked for dengue larvae and 7 positive containers were destroyed.
NEW CORONA CASES
Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Secretary Imran Sikandar Baloch on Tuesday said that during the last 24 hours, 60 new cases of coronavirus were reported across the province. In a press statement issued here, he explained that 50 positive cases were reported in Lahore and six in Rawalpindi.
The secretary said that so far, total number of cases reached 444,680, besides 429,016 patients who fully recovered in the province. “The number of active cases is 2,601 to date,” he added.
In last 24 hours, one death was reported in Punjab, pushing the death toll to 13,063. He said that 17,073 tests were conducted in last 24 hours and a total of 8.86 million tests were conducted altogether. Baloch said the overall rate of COVID -19 incidence in the last 24 hours was recorded as 0.3 per cent in the province.