Mayor P. Jegan Periyasamy on Wednesday said no dengue case had been reported within the Corporation limits so far during the past few months.
Raising the issue at the council meeting held here, councillors, cutting across party lines, said the urban civic body should ensure periodic garbage removal by deploying adequate number of sanitary workers and intensify anti-dengue operations as outbreak of the vector-borne disease had unleashed panic among the public in the past, especially during the northeast monsoon.
Mr. Jegan replied that fever tests were being conducted on patients visiting the seven urban primary health centres and the 10 urban wellness centres of the Corporation. Sixty fever tests were being conducted in these places on an average every day.
