<p>“The situation in Commonwealth Games sites is well under control except one site, which is a little cause of worry. Delhi is a safe city,” Union health secretary K Sujatha Rao said here.<br />Underplaying the threat, the official said at the moment a mild strain of dengue virus (serotype-1) is in circulation which causes large number of dengue cases but with few deaths. So far 1580 cases with four deaths were reported from Delhi.<br /><br />While dug up roads and construction pits are providing a ready-made breeding site for dengue-causing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, officials said that mosquitoes are breeding in many household items and overhead water tanks in multi-storied buildings too. <br /><br />“Many a times, the rich and powerful in Delhi were denying the municipality workers access to their houses for checking the breeding sites,” Rao said. <br /><br />They also denied access to some residential blocks as well as in the CWG village on security grounds, he added. <br /><br />The Centre has now issued an access pass to the health workers for the Games village. Besides intensive application of pesticide and larvaecide application, larvae-eating fish species are being released in the large water puddles from where water cannot be pumped out. <br /><br />No outbreak of epidemic<br /><br />Denying dengue has assumed an epidemic proportion in the capital, the official said that outbreak in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are more severe.<br />“It is unfortunate if some country issues travel advisory,” Rao said.<br /></p>
<p>“The situation in Commonwealth Games sites is well under control except one site, which is a little cause of worry. Delhi is a safe city,” Union health secretary K Sujatha Rao said here.<br />Underplaying the threat, the official said at the moment a mild strain of dengue virus (serotype-1) is in circulation which causes large number of dengue cases but with few deaths. So far 1580 cases with four deaths were reported from Delhi.<br /><br />While dug up roads and construction pits are providing a ready-made breeding site for dengue-causing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, officials said that mosquitoes are breeding in many household items and overhead water tanks in multi-storied buildings too. <br /><br />“Many a times, the rich and powerful in Delhi were denying the municipality workers access to their houses for checking the breeding sites,” Rao said. <br /><br />They also denied access to some residential blocks as well as in the CWG village on security grounds, he added. <br /><br />The Centre has now issued an access pass to the health workers for the Games village. Besides intensive application of pesticide and larvaecide application, larvae-eating fish species are being released in the large water puddles from where water cannot be pumped out. <br /><br />No outbreak of epidemic<br /><br />Denying dengue has assumed an epidemic proportion in the capital, the official said that outbreak in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are more severe.<br />“It is unfortunate if some country issues travel advisory,” Rao said.<br /></p>