The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Sunday (July 12) found Aedes mosquito larvae at 86 houses and establishments on the eighth day of its combing operation to protect the city dwellers from dengue.
The mobile courts led by DNCC filed ten cases and fined the establishments Tk 199,400.
The drive was conducted in Uttara, Mirpur, Mohakhali, Kawran Bazar, Harirampur, Dakshinkhan, Uttarkhan, Vatara and Satarkul areas.
During the second phase of drive that started on July 4, the DNCC inspected 13,081 houses, establishments and under-construction buildings and found the presence of Aedes larvae at 86 of them on Sunday.
During the drives, the DNCC inspected a total of 106,012 houses, establishments and under-construction buildings, and found larvae of Aedes mosquito at 763 of them.
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