Sindh hotspot of dengue despite chilly weather.

KARACHI -- With the rest of the country returning no cases of dengue infection, such cases are still being reported in Sindh despite cold weather, when the mosquito that causes the disease normally goes into hibernation, officials said on Saturday.

More than 40 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever were reported in Sindh on Friday while, barring a single case in Islamabad, no region elsewhere in the country reported anyone inflicted by it.

Officials in the health ministry said 43 dengue cases were reported in the province - almost all of them in the teeming Sindh capital.

With 16,543 cases reported in Sindh so far this year, more than 90 per cent of them have been reported in Karachi, officials said.

The number of dengue cases across Pakistan is a whopping more than 53,700, with the deadly infection claiming the lives of 95 people across the country.

However, a bit less than 50 per cent of the deaths (46) caused by dengue fever across the country have been reported in Sindh.

Islamabad, incredibly, is the second-most infected area by the disease where 13,293 people have been infected by dengue, followed by the country's most populous province of Punjab which reported 10,117 such cases.

Another 7,082 cases have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Balochistan reported 3,474 cases...