A recent check by a digital community-grounded platform has plant that 43 per cent of Delhi-NCR residers have someone in their family or close network who has been impacted by dengue this time.
Since mid-August, several residers of Delhi-NCR have reported on LocalCircles that they’ve someone in the family with symptoms of dengue like high fever, fatigue and joint pain.
The check, which entered close to responses, stated that 57 per cent repliers from Ghaziabad have someone they know who has been impacted by dengue followed by Delhi with 45 per cent, Noida with 44 per cent, Faridabad with 40 per cent, and 29 per cent in Gurgaon.
It said 10 per cent of Delhi-NCR repliers have “ four or further individualities” in their family or close network impacted by the viral complaint. Also 19 per cent said they’ve “ two to three individualities”, and 15 per cent said only “ one existent” has been affected in their family.
The maturity of 53 per cent of Delhi-NCR residers surveyed said no bone has been infected, and 3 per cent couldn’t say about the same. On an aggregate base, 43 per cent of the repliers said they’ve someone in their family or close original social network who has been impacted by dengue this time.
“LocalCircles, which also hosts the largest voluntary blood assistance network of Delhi-NCR, has seen over 100 per cent increase in blood platelet requests week-over-week for last six weeks,” said Sachin Taparia, founder, LocalCircles.
“The findings indicate that dengue is badly impacting not just Delhi, but all NCR cities, suggesting authorities’ immediate intervention to control and mitigate the spread as well as deploy additional healthcare capacity,” he said.
In a survey conducted by LocalCircles in August, 70 per cent respondents had said their municipalities were not conducting anti-mosquito fogging or doing it very rarely
