Bhubaneswar: The capital city reported 50 new cases of dengue in the last 24 hours taking the total number of patients to 714, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday.
The BMC said data of 25,909 people have been collected from 6193 households in the last 24 hours while awareness and cleanliness programmes have been widened.
The civic body has destroyed 2999 potential mosquito breeding sites. Besides, larvae of Aedes mosquitoes have been detected and destroyed at 815 locations.