India, Sept. 5 -- The city recorded three new dengue cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total for the season to 53, according to the health department.

Gurugram reported zero new malaria cases on Friday, keeping the total count for the year at five. No deaths linked to the mosquito-borne infection have been reported in the district so far this year.

Health officials said they have ramped up testing and fever surveillance across vulnerable neighbourhoods as post-monsoon stagnant water continued to elevate breeding risks. On Friday alone, laboratory teams collected 126 blood samples for dengue screening, pushing the total number of samples evaluated this season to 9,155, the health department's daily vector-borne disease bulletin ...