New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is collecting blood samples of labourers working at Commonwealth Games sites to screen them for malaria.

Builders across Goa have been found wanting in the vector-borne disease control programme of the Directorate of Health Services taking into account the fact that 85 per cent cases of malaria are reported from project areas (construction sites) where migrant (or construction) labourers work and reside.

Five districts have reported an outbreak of malaria recently, in Karnataka. Although the State is doing quite well in terms of implementing the Central Government's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), malaria cases have been reported every year from endemic pockets.

Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) has called for a greater collaboration among government agencies to combat malaria.
In a press note issued here, the GOACAN has said that there is a need for greater collaboration amongst government departments and corporations to combat malaria and other vector borne diseases so that an effective strategy can be adopted for Goa.

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