10 new dengue cases in city

Ten new cases of dengue were reported in the Capital on Wednesday, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 98. Three of the people are from outside Delhi.

Ten new cases of dengue were reported in the Capital on Wednesday, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 98. Three of the people are from outside Delhi.

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A nine-year-old girl from Sangam Vihar died of the disease at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she was be treated for the past two weeks.

A 38-year-old man also died of the disease in the government-run Lok Nayak Hospital on Sunday morning, but civic authorities has not registered it as the second dengue death in the city because he was a resident of Loni near the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.

The dengue serology report is also awaited of a man who died in Safdarjung Hospital on Monday.