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Anti-chikungunya drive by Corporation covers over two lakh houses

Special Correspondent

Civic body keen on preventing outbreak of rain-related diseases

FOR SAFETY: Students pouring anti-larval solution into a sump in the city during the chikungunya prevention drive of the Coimbatore Corporation. —

COIMBATORE: As many as 21,000 students, 3,000 sanitary workers of the Coimbatore Corporation and 500 teachers spread the message of prevention of chikungunya across the city on Saturday and Sunday.

The Corporation embarked on a two-day drive to warn people of the causes and effects of chikungunya that could leave people down for days with high fever and a crippling pain in the joints. The main message was preventing the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmitted the disease causing Alpha virus. (The mosquito breeds only in fresh water and bites only during day.)

Students poured drops of anti-larval solution into 2.27-lakh sumps and tubs in which water was stored.

The Corporation said after the drive on Sunday that 2.47-lakh houses were covered over two days. It said 432 teams of teachers, students and workers fanned out to various parts of the city to educate people on safe storage of water and on how to avoid stagnation of rain water.

The civic body said its workers carted away 2,087 gunny bags of discarded coconut shells, broken bottles, plastic containers and also tyres that could turn into breeding grounds for mosquitoes if rain water stagnated in these items. The Corporation also said the teams found that 17,173 tubs and other types of containers with water were not covered. The workers covered 14,450 of these with cloth and other materials available. The drive also detected 2,349 damaged septic tanks.

The Corporation said it would monitor the situation across the city every day. With the monsoon having set in, the civic body was keen on preventing the outbreak of any rain-related disease.

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