{"id":21201,"date":"2026-04-09T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21201"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:10:58","slug":"first-dengue-death-reported-in-karachi-this-year-cases-rising-across-sindh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21201","title":{"rendered":"First Dengue Death Reported in Karachi This Year, Cases Rising Across Sindh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"2ff015c2-e3af-42a2-9d70-e52a8eb47037\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"869\">\n<p data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"1064\"><strong>The spokesperson of the Sindh Health Department has confirmed the first dengue-related death in Karachi this year, with the case reported from District East, raising concerns at the city level.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1272\">According to the spokesperson, a total of 198 dengue cases have been reported across Sindh so far this year, including 163 cases in Karachi alone, indicating a significant spread of the disease in the city.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1410\">He further stated that 24 dengue cases have been reported from the Hyderabad Division, while cases are also emerging from other regions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1579\">According to the spokesperson, 8 cases have been reported from Mirpurkhas Division and 3 from Sukkur Division, showing a widening spread of dengue across the province.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1648\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson of the Sindh Health Department has confirmed the first dengue-related death in Karachi this year, with the case reported from District East, raising concerns at the city level. According to the spokesperson, a total of 198 dengue cases have been reported across Sindh so far this year, including 163 cases in Karachi alone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,46],"tags":[1507,4178,2146,5061,74,179],"class_list":["post-21201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-dengue","tag-disease","tag-health-department","tag-hyderabad","tag-karachi","tag-sindh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21203,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions\/21203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}