Updated On: 06 July, 2024 01:11 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
More cases are reported in Bengaluru, Chikkamagaluru, Mysuru and Hassan. A doctor has succumbed to dengue fever, MP Manjunath said. Once complications start in dengue, death is 99 percent as there is no treatment, he added

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The BJP in Karnataka has demanded the Congress government to declare a medical emergency over the rising dengue cases in the state.
Addressing a joint press conference at the BJP headquarters in Bengaluru, BJP MP C.N. Manjunath demanded that along with declaring a medical emergency, the state government should also form a task force and take the opinion of experts in handling the situation.