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NEW DELHI: A month and more after the dreaded infection first surfaced in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday claimed that meningococcal meningitis had stabilised with no deaths being reported during the past 24 hours. The civic body is now busy mapping and compiling reports on areas from where the maximum number of cases has come in. A stocktaking of the infection has revealed that the largest number of cases from within the city came from the crowded and congested localities including MCD's Sadar Paharganj (City zone), Shahdara (North zone) and Shahdara (South zone). "The incidence of meningococcal infections, which started being reported in Delhi from April 21 this year, has now seen a downward trend. Till Wednesday, Delhi had recorded 43 cases of death due to meningococcal infections, while the total number of cases stands at 397. Delhi has also got two new cases in the last 24 hours and a total of 298 patients have been discharged so far," said the Director (Hospital Administration) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, J. N. Banavaliker. Speaking about the data collection and the zones from where highest numbers of cases have been reported, officials claimed that while Delhi's population itself was not a problem it were the cases coming in from outside that were proving tricky to handle. "This time round the Capital got 47 cases from outside and what had us worried was the fact that as many as 53 patients had given us the wrong addresses which made it difficult for us to trace them and those in close contact with them. Under its programme to reach out and immunise every one including medical staff who came under the high-risk category, the civic body saw to it that chemoprophylaxis was given to contacts of the patients, to doctors, para-medical staff attending," said Dr. Banavaliker.
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