During the meeting, the MCD Commissioner was directed to deploy drones for mosquito surveillance and control, particularly in vulnerable areas such as construction sites, nurseries, and abandoned houses with inaccessible terraces to identify breeding sites and implement targeted interventions to prevent disease transmission.
Nearly 600 dengue cases have been reported in the national capital in the first two weeks of November, taking the infection tally of the vector-borne disease to more than 2,700 so far this year, according to a civic report issued on Monday.