Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 20:57 IST Tags:dengue, Delhi

New Delhi: With 22 fresh cases of dengue, the total number of patients suffering from the vector-borne disease in the national capital climbed to 992 on Saturday, even as authorities hoped that its spread could be contained as the mercury was showing a downward trend.

The city has reported over 360 cases of dengue in the past 11 days.

"With 22 fresh positive cases of dengue, the total has reached 992. There are 13 cases in which the infection has been contracted from outside Delhi," Debashish Bhattacharya, the Delhi government's nodal officer for dengue, said to a news agency.

He hoped that as the mercury was showing a downward trend, the spread of the disease could be contained.

The capital on Saturday reported the season's lowest temperature of 8.6 degree Celsius. Today's minimum, which is two degrees below normal at this point of the time, is the lowest for the month of November in the past three years.

The city has reported two dengue deaths so far. On October 23, a 15-year-old boy succumbed to the disease at AIIMS while a nine-year-old boy breathed his last at the LNJP hospital on October 26.

Bureau Report