Overview

• Union Health Ministry issued an advisory urging Chief Ministers to stay vigilant while directing local bodies to intensify community outreach and vector-control operations.
• State health ministers were told to personally review the situation and submit dengue–malaria action plans within 20 days.
• A high-level review was ordered for Delhi and the wider NCR to closely assess risks and ensure advance preparedness.
• Hospitals, including those under the Centre, must maintain adequate drugs, diagnostics and beds while keeping premises mosquito-free.
• The government highlighted strengthened diagnostics—869 sentinel hospitals, 27 apex labs, and over 5,520 dengue and 2,530 chikungunya kits supplied—alongside long-term malaria gains of about 78% fewer cases and deaths and 160 zero-malaria districts since 2022, even as rains drive higher risk in states including Maharashtra and Delhi.