New Delhi: The first case of death from malaria has been reported in the national capital Delhi amid the outbreak of Corona. On Tuesday, the first death was recorded after several years from malaria. According to Health Department officials, a six-year-old child resident of JJ Colony in Madanpur Khadar died due to malaria. This child died in September.

The death review committee was constituted by the State government and the municipal corporation to find out the cause of death. According to Health Department officials, the cause of death of the child is malaria. It is also called meningitis. If the child was admitted earlier for treatment, he could have survived. Health Department officials said that earlier in September 2016, a person resident of Mandavali died in Safdarganj Hospital. For the past 5 years, there were no deaths from malaria in Delhi.

According to the municipal corporation, 223 cases of malaria have been reported this year. No cases of malaria have been reported in the last one week. However, 49 new cases of dengue have been reported in the last one week and this year the total number of patients has reached 950. After the death of a child from malaria in JJ Colony, the Municipal Corporation started the campaign. During this time no one else was found infected.

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