Sixteen people have so far died of mosquito-borne dengue fever in Pakistan over the past two months as the number of people infected with the virus rose to 1,841 in the country. An official of the federal health ministry disclosed yesterday that out of 3,853 suspected dengue fever cases, 1,841 were positive and the number was likely to go up. He said that 1,382 cases tested positive in Sindh, 248 in Punjab, 101 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, five in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and 105 in Islamabad. The official said that guidelines had been issued to all provinces over the measures needed to contain the spread of dengue virus.
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