QUETTA   -  Balochistan continues to see an alarming surge in dengue cases amid recent outbreak in the aftermath of the devastat­ing floods. 

“A total of 177 dengue fever cases were reported across Balochistan during the last cou­ple of days,” Additional Secre­tary Health Qaseem Khan Kakar told media on Wednesday. 

He noted that majority cases were been reported from the coastal belt of Balochistan, in­cluding Kech, Lasbela and Gwa­dar. “As many as 96 cases of dengue disease were reported from Kech district of Balo­chistan,” he added. 

Lasbella which was earlier reported as the worst calamity-hit area of the province and now the worst hit in terms of dengue cases as the district reported 46 new cases, while Gwadar re­ported 35 cases, he said. 

Around 2,830 positive cases of dengue virus were reported from Ketch this year, the addi­tional secretary said. 

Likewise, 391 cases had been reported from Gwadar, and 103 from Lasbela. Howev­er, no case of dengue had been reported in Quetta, the provin­cial capital of Balochistan, he informed. The number of den­gue cases reported this year was 3,364, he said.