State governments across the country are preparing protocols and locating tactics for a health care infrastructure that is already in demand due to Covid-19, following the start of the dengue season.
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads dengue fever, is the most widespread in cities, and experts have warned in the afterlife that the expansion of urbanization and warming temperatures due to climate change mean that it will continue to rise.
From Punjab to West Bengal, orders have been given to the government that dengue does not wreak havoc in the country already suffering the spread of coronavirus disease.
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The Punjab government introduced a cleanup crusade last week. These crusades were carried out through local urban organizations and panchayati Raj establishments on the basis of crusades to save him from vector-borne diseases/dengue.
In West Bengal, fitness officials have formulated new protocols for fitness professionals to distinguish between Covid-19 and dengue, as both have similar symptoms. Protocols will also treat doctors to patients diagnosed with any of the diseases, according to the fitness department.
“Since the beginning of June, we have noticed cases of Covid-19 and dengue fever in districts such as North 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Howrah. In these districts, doctors find it difficult to distinguish the difference between the two diseases. So we made a decision to shape a set of protocols to help them,” said one fitness official according to news firm PTI.
The district’s fitness staff gained education in this factor video conference, the fitness officer added.
Ways to prevent the spread of dengue fever have been destroying mosquito breeding sites, such as old garbage or tires and other water-containing items. But blockages in the coronavirus era and other restrictions have meant that these efforts have been reduced or stopped altogether in many places.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2019 was the worst year in dengue cases, with all regions affected and some countries being affected for the first time. According to the National Vector Transmitted Disease Control Program (NVBDCP), 136422 cases of dengue were diagnosed in India in 2019 and another 132 people died.
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Experts say that while reduced travel means fewer opportunities for mosquitoes to bite people with dengue to become carriers themselves, the coronavirus pandemic has introduced other variables.
Staying at home, a way to curb covid-19 epidemics, especially in cities, poses greater dangers of dengue spread, Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) said. This is because the Aedes mosquito bites the day, and with more people staying at home, where mosquito populations are high, they are most likely to be bitten.
Covid-19 and dengue have symptoms such as high fever, headache and frame pain.
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