With dengue fever taking two more lives over the past 24 hours in Uttar Pradesh, the toll on account of the deadly virus in the country's most populous and poverty-ridden state has gone up to six.
"A six-year-old child, who was brought from Sitapur district to the medical university in Lucknow, succumbed to the dengue virus on Friday, while another child met his end in the Farrukhabad district hospital early Saturday," Dr V S Nigam, spokesman of the health department told this scribe.
He said, "The total number of dengue cases had shot up to 199 in the state following detection of 40 new cases over the past 24 hours." Certain districts of Western UP, bordering Delhi were stated to be the worst-hit.
The maximum number of cases were reported from Noida (44), followed by Lucknow-(37), Ghaziabad (29) and Muzaffarnagar (20), among