The number of deaths in India from an outbreak of dengue fever reached 107 on Wednesday, as authorities struggled to contain the mosquito-borne virus.
"Four people who were admitted here died this (Wednesday) morning," said an official at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country's premier facility in New Delhi.
A federal health ministry statement said 5,710 cases and 103 deaths from dengue - a viral infection transmitted to humans through bites of female Aedes mosquitoes - had been reported across the country till late Tuesday.
New Delhi and neighbouring states have been worst hit by dengue with 1,637 cases followed by southern coastal Kerala state which reported 794 cases, the health ministry said.
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