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Sri Lanka’s ministry of health has taken legal action against a thousand individuals for breeding dengue mosquitoes.
The authorities in a national dengue prevention programme inspected 63,595 premises and prosecuted 1,135 people during the first two days of the three-day programme, reports the Colombo Page.
The four-day long programme commenced on July 13 and concluded on July 15.
The health ministry also issued notices to 2,847 individuals in this regard.
The authorities so far this year have inspected around 1mn premises and out of them around 200,000 places were identified as possible dengue breeding sites.
So far this year, 24,400 suspected dengue cases have been reported to the unit from all over the island, according to the epidemiology unit of the health ministry.
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