RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: As the number of dengue cases reaches to over 3,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the affected areas of the provincial metropolis Peshawar have been declared as Red Zones.

“Peshawar has been divided into three zones: Red Zone is the one where the dengue virus is epidemic, Yellow Zone comprises areas neighbouring the Red Zone and the third is Green Zone,” Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Saqib Raza Aslam told this scribe on Tuesday.

Experts said that old tyres in the district have served as the breeding ground for dengue mosquitoes.

They also believed the mosquitoes breeding in the area could spread across the country.

The Peshawar district administration has said over 200 teams were working towards eradicating the dengue virus and have fumigated 15,000 houses so far in an attempt to kill dengue mosquitoes.

On the other hand, 400 dengue patients were being treated at hospitals across KP, while 10 have succumbed to the virus so far.

Meanwhile, despite of tall claims about controlling of dengue virus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the district administration in Mardan has failed to start a fruitful campaign and other arrangements to control the dengue virus in the district due to which the dengue virus affected people number is increasing day by day in the district.

Sajid Iqbal, President nazim councilor alliance told the reporters at Mardan press club that deputy commissioner Mardan Imran Hamid Sheikh has directed all the nazims of village, neighborhood councils to allocate Rs 2,30,000 funds for anti-dengue spray from the developmental funds of their council and start spray in their village and neighborhood councils.