Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Dengue fever has claimed two more lives from Islamabad Capital Territory in the last 24 hours taking the total number of deaths so far reported from the federal capital due to the infection to 11 while the infection has already claimed at least three lives from Rawalpindi district.
According to details, one patient who was a resident of Koral, a rural area in the federal capital died of dengue fever while another patient belonging to the urban area in ICT, G-15/1 lost his life due to dengue fever in the last 24 hours. It is important that as many as eight patients belonging to rural areas and three patients from urban areas in ICT have lost their lives due to dengue fever this year so far.
The dengue fever outbreak is still hitting the population hard in this region of the country and the number of patients being tested positive for the infection has once again started registering an upward trend at least for the last three days.
