As dengue continues to consume lives at a rapid rate, a 32-year-old tax agent has become the latest victim of the mosquito-borne ailment. Reports state that there has been a significant rise in the number of dengue-related deaths in Mumbai. In the state too, there has been a rise in dengue-related deaths, proving that authorities need to swing into action very quickly.

Though numbers are staring us in the face, the BMC insists that the tax agent was the fourth in Mumbai to succumb to dengue. A slew of NGOs have filed reports stating that figures are higher and the civic body has only taken figures from civic and state run hospitals into account, and not numbers from the many private hospitals and clinics.