NOIDA, May 19 -- With the monsoon season approaching, the Gautam Budh Nagar health department has started anti-dengue surveillance and awareness drives across the district, including household inspections, anti-larval spraying and outreach programmes in schools, factories and residential areas, officials said on Monday.

As part of the campaign, health teams inspected 41 houses in Barola village for mosquito breeding spots and conducted awareness drives in schools, labour establishments and community health centres across Noida, Greater Noida, Dadri, Bisrakh and Jewar over the weekend.

Officials said the drive was launched due to the heightened risk of dengue transmission during the monsoon months, when stagnant clean water becomes a bre...