With the monsoon season around the corner, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has intensified its drive against vector-borne diseases.

The civic body today said it would organise events like seminar, lecture, exhibition, and public awareness initiatives in every ward, beside sanitation drives in each of the 12 zones simultaneously.

In the series, Delhi Mayor Rajni Abbi today launched a

Kurla, once one of the city

There has been a considerable rise in monsoon-related diseases like malaria in city hospitals over the past week.

BMC hospitals have recorded 258 gastro-related cases in the past six days.

The Colombo City is facing the worst dengue epidemic ever Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) said yesterday revealing that there had been 195 cases reported this month.

CMC which dropped a bomb shell, said in and round the National Hospital Colombo, Military Hospital and vicinity of the Colombo Port had been identified as the major mosquito breeding grounds in the city.

There had been 885 repor

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is aiming to reduce the deaths by malaria in the metropolis to a two-digit number this monsoon.

The toll was reduced from 198 in 2009 to 145 in 2010, said additional commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar yesterday.

"We are aiming to bring the number of deaths to a two-digit figure, if not zero, this monsoon," said Mhaiskar, speaking at a seminar on malaria erad

TEZPUR, May 18

Last year, malaria claimed 145 victims and affected nearly 77,000 in the city.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has made it mandatory for all city hospitals to report dengue and chikungunya cases online.

Nodal officers of all 596 hospitals in the city will provide the exact figures of people hit by dengue and chikungunya, who are undergoing treatment there.