Three dengue cases reported in Colombo last week

Shirley Wijesinghe

Three dengue cases have been reported from Colombo 3 and 7 within the Municipal city limit during last week, a CMC Medical Health Department official told the Daily News yesterday.

Dengue seems to raise itself usually after the rainy season and it can further develop later this year, he said.

The official said that the CMC has already launched an anti-dengue program after holding a meeting with school principals recently. The principals were asked to clean their school premises and at least 200 metres of surrounding areas additionally.

Principals were strictly advised not to keep landscaping structures including water retaining broad leaf plants in school premises and dark locations inside the buildings, he said.

He also said that most of the semi constructed buildings specially with roofing of naked slabs have been found to be good substrate for mosquito breeding.

The CMC also had taken a decision to train its health officers to adopt Cuban biological control methods for the eradication of dengue, CMC sources revealed.