NEW DELHI: With five more dengue deaths being reported from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the death toll in the Capital from the outbreak of the disease shot up to 43 on Thursday.

The city hospitals also recorded 89 fresh cases during the past 24 hours.

The dengue deaths reported in AIIMS include - Riaz, a 65-year-old resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh and Yashpal Singh (32) from Palam in South West Delhi, who died late last night at the Institute.

While the two deaths were reported from among the admitted patients, three more deaths were reported from the AIIMS Casualty Department.

Speaking about the situation at AIIMS, Medical Superintendent D. K. Sharma said: "Fifty-three new patients were admitted to the hospital and nearly 180 people with suspected dengue have been kept under observation. We continue to get a large number of people who are coming in for dengue screening. We have registered three deaths after 1 p.m. and these were all patients who had come to the Institute's casualty. While two of the deceased were from Delhi, one person was from Uttar Pradesh.''

Delhi has reported a total of 1,820 cases of dengue of which 1,144 are from Delhi including 1,053 cases from the Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) area and 40 from the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area.

The cases reported from different parts of the city include -- Shahdara (North) 147, Shahdara (South) 110, Civil Lines Zones 67, Rohini 85, Karol Bagh 70 and Central Zone 210.

Meanwhile, expressing concern over the dengue outbreak in the Capital, Delhi's Health Minister Yoganand Shastri on Thursday said the MCD had been asked to re-evaluate its plan to fight various diseases including dengue and bring in long-term solutions. He also stressed the need for a joint effort by all departments to ensure that such vector borne diseases do not recur year after year.

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