Waking up to the rapid spread of dengue and chikungunya in the city, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has now identified areas where the vector-borne disease is rampant.
A colour-coded map of the city published on the palike’s website has identified Bommanahalli, Rajajinagar and Vijaynagar Assembly constituencies, where breeding of the disease-causing Aedes aegypti is rampant this year.
While dengue is widespread in these three constituencies, chikungunya cases have been reported only from Bommanahalli Assembly constituency, according to the map. Of the total 2,670 dengue positive cases recorded by the State Health Department from January 2015 till date, 830 are from Bengaluru city and 168 from Bengaluru Urban.
Naveen Kumar, BBMP project coordinator for National Vector-borne Disease Control Programme, said most of these cases were reported from Bommanahalli, Rajajinagar and Vijaynagar constituencies. “We have marked these areas in red on the map to show that they are the red zones. Those areas where the number of cases reported are less than 25 have been marked in orange,” he said.
Gandhinagar, Byatrayanapura and Yelahanka Assembly constituencies have been marked in yellow to show that very few positive cases have been reported from these areas.
Pointing out that only those cases that were confirmed to be positive by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) were recorded in the list, he said information, education and communication activities in these constituencies had been intensified.
“We are also intensifying awareness measures by staging street plays and publicising advisories in the electronic media. This apart, we are also conducting screening camps and awareness camps in schools,” he said.