22 new dengue cases in Delhi, total touches 992

With 22 fresh cases of dengue, the total number of patients suffering from the vector-borne disease in the national capital climbed to 992 today, even as authorities hoped that its spread could be contained as the mercury was showing a downward trend.

The city has reported over 360 cases of dengue in the past 11 days.

"With 22 fresh positive cases of dengue, the total has reached 992. There are 13 cases in which the infection has been contracted from outside Delhi," Debashish Bhattacharya, the Delhi government's nodal officer for dengue, told PTI.

He hoped that as the mercury was showing a downward trend, the spread of the disease could be contained.

The capital today reported the season's lowest temperature of 8.6 degree Celsius. Today's minimum, which is two degrees below normal at this point of the time, is the lowest for the month of November in the past three years.

The city has reported two dengue deaths so far. On October 23, a 15-year-old boy succumbed to the disease at AIIMS while a nine-year-old boy breathed his last at the LNJP hospital on October 26.