Breaking Update: Here’s a clear explanation of the latest developments related to Breaking News:KMC records 91 pc reductions in reported dengue cases, 40 pc malaria cases in 2025– What Just Happened and why it matters right now.
In a major relief to the citizens of the City of Joy, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation witnessed a reduction of around 91 per cent in reported dengue cases and 40 per cent malaria cases in 2025 as compared to 2023.
As learnt from the Budget data, the civic body registered 12,334 dengue cases between 1 January and 2 November, 2023. The year 2023 is regarded as ‘atypical’ by the civic body experts as the city witnessed an exceptionally ‘high burden’ of dengue cases when the total number of cases reported shot up to 13,926. The vector control wing of the municipal corporation intensified its vector-management and allied activities right from the outset of the year 2024. The activities resulted in the decline to 90.5 per cent in 2024 when too much relief of the civic body, the KMC recorded 1,316 reported cases of dengue. The experts do not consider 2024 as a baseline for comparison.
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In 2025, the number showed improvement once again and the civic body saw a reduction of 91 per cent in reported cases of dengue under its limits with 1,106 cases between 1 January and 2 November, 2025.
A closer look at the recently introduced budget data reveals that the KMC saw a sharp decline in the number of reported malaria cases as well in 2025. In 2023, between 1 January and 2 November, 9,309 cases were reported while in 2024, the figures came down to 5,187 seeing a reduction of 44.3 per cent for the corresponding period. In 2025, malaria cases saw a further reduction of 28.2 per cent from 2024, according to the budget details.
The deputy mayor and the member-mayor-in-council, Atin Ghosh attributed the reduction in dengue malaria cases to various year-long vector-control initiatives carried out by the civic body.