National Mosquito Control Week:

Over 48,800 dengue- breeders warned

Nadira GUNATILLEKE

Health authorities yesterday severely warned 48,841 owners of premises who had mosquito breeding places, on the fourth day of the national mosquito eradication week. Mosquito eradication programmes were implemented on the fourth day of the National Mosquito Eradication Week,

where officials inspected 305 zones in 305 medical officers of Health Division throughout the island.

Authorities visited 84,509 premises of which 24,982 were found to have the risks of breeding mosquitoes.

Owners of 48,841 premises were warned while it was decided to take legal action against 1,811 owners of premises. The third day of the countrywide National Mosquito Control Week saw the detection of 2,255 places with dengue mosquito larvae and legal action taken against 2,500 people who had dengue mosquito breeding places within their properties, a Health Ministry Spokesman said.

According to the spokesman, inspectors detected 18,523 potential dengue mosquito breeding sites during their inspections and issued warnings to 40,295 persons.