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KOCHI: Though the city residents are trying their best in learning to live with mosquitoes, the scare of spreading dengue fever is scaling up.

Though the Corporation put two autorickshaw- mounted fogging machines out in Mattanchery and Ernakulam areas, the service has not yet reached all divisions.

Southeast Asia and South Pacific island nations face a growing threat from malaria and dengue fever as climate change spreads mosquitoes that carry the diseases and climate-change refugees start to migrate.

According to a spokesman of the Punjab Health Department, 34 people more were diagnosed with dengue fever over the past 24 hours while five patients are under treatment in private hospitals. Meanwhile, 58-year-old Suriya Begum of Mughalpura died at the Services Hospital on Tuesday, whose dengue virus test was positive.

A spokesman of the Punjab Health Department said on Friday that 79 new positive cases of dengue virus have been reported, while 27 new patients had been admitted to different teaching hospitals during the last 24 hours. The spokesman said that 103 dengue fever patients were currently under treatment in the hospitals.

The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council, which inspected 3,100 premises on Wednesday, found mosquito breeding grounds in 409 of them. 180 were given notice under the mosquito borne diseases ordinance.

At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the civic body.

With dengue fever on the rise and an average of 25 cases of the disease being reported every day on average, the Anti-Malaria Department of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has only fumigated less than half the city.