KARACHI, Nov 25: The number of new entry suspected VHF/dengue patients reporting at various city hospitals during the past 24 hours ending at 2 pm Saturday increased slightly.

The Dengue Fever Cell of the Sindh health department recorded 41 new patients, taking to the total tally of dengue or VHF patients to 4,121 in the city in five months. The number of dengue positive cases reached 1,396.

According to Dr Tajammul Baig of the DFC, as many as 4,226 patients of mosquito virus infection had been reported through out the province so far, out of which 1,451 were found dengue positive.

The patients’ position in city hospitals on Saturday remained as following:

AKU-20(2 new cases), LNH-36(2), CHK-9(3), ZUH-37, JPMC-18(6), BTH-15(3), NICH-6(2), ASH-44(No new), BH-5(2), Patel-1(1), Kutiyana-8(6) and LGH-1(1).