Overview
- Municipal officials identified the victims as a 9-year-old from Shalimar Bagh and a 48-year-old from Dilshad Garden following a death-audit review.
- The exact dates of the two deaths were not disclosed and officials said they were not recent, with 13 additional suspected dengue deaths still under audit for confirmation and Delhi-origin attribution.
- The city’s cumulative dengue count stands at 1,136 cases, including 989 in MCD areas and the rest from NDMC, Delhi Cantonment and railway jurisdictions.
- October recorded the highest monthly caseload at 377, with the central zone reporting the most cases (125), followed by the west (103) and Najafgarh (99).
- Anti-breeding operations were weakened during a month-long MTS strike that ended on November 2; MCD reports roughly three crore house inspections this year with about 21 lakh found breeding-positive, alongside 623 malaria and 133 chikungunya cases.