DNCC to start 10-day mosquito drive today
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes in areas under its jurisdiction from today.
This is the fourth such operation against these mosquitoes, which are carriers of both dengue and chikungunya, this year.
The operation will be conducted from 9am to 12pm every day except Friday. The wards will be divided into ten sectors, and each sector will have 10 sub-sectors, said a DNCC press release.
DNCC teams will conduct the drives across all 10 sub-sectors of a ward and will cover all 54 wards under the corporation, stated the release.
A team consisting of four garbage management workers and one spray-man will take part in the operation in each sub-sector.
The teams will visit different establishments, houses and under construction buildings and check for breeding grounds.
They will collect pictures and addresses of houses and other establishments, and mobile numbers of their owners, if they find Aedes larvae or breeding sources there.
All data collected will be stored to prepare a database to monitor the breeding sources properly afterwards, reads the release.
Mobile courts will also conduct operations in this regard.
The teams will also visit houses and establishments where they found larvae during earlier combing operations.
Nine entomologists of Directorate General of Health Services, three of DNCC, and officials of DNCC's health and garbage management will remain present during the drive.
DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam urged residents, councillors and journalists to extend their cooperation to make the operation successful.
Explaining that Aedes mosquitoes lay eggs in clean water, he urged all residents to clear stagnant water regularly to keep areas free from the mosquitoes.
The mayor said even during the pandemic, the dengue situation will have to be kept under control at any cost.
He said due to unusual rainfall, the prevalence of dengue has slightly increased, and they have taken the matter very seriously.
The corporation has already started an awareness campaign through loud speakers, said the release.
So far in this year, DNCC teams visited 4,05,550 houses and structures and found larvae at 2,686 of them.
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