Pune dengue cases reached 843 in October, the highest monthly count of the year, according to figures from the Pune Municipal Corporation reported on 3 November. The total took confirmed infections in the city to 2,486 between 1 January and 30 October.
Pune dengue cases rose about 27 per cent on September’s 662, and the monthly counts have climbed through the late monsoon and post-monsoon months: 366 confirmed cases in July, 512 in August, 662 in September and 843 in October. The rise has continued past the monsoon, which is when dengue usually peaks.
The civic body keeps a separate count of suspected cases. Its insect control department recorded 709 suspected dengue cases in October, taking the year’s suspected total to 2,372. The two counts are not the same measure: confirmed cases are those with a laboratory result, while suspected cases rest on symptoms and early screening tests.
Pune dengue cases by ward
Four wards accounted for about half of October’s confirmed cases. Aundh-Baner reported the most, with 152 cases. Yerawada-Wadgaonsheri followed with 110, Dhankawadi-Sahakarnagar with 92 and Keshavnagar with 74. Together the four wards recorded 428 cases, just over half of the month’s 843. Kothrud reported 73 cases and Ahmednagar Road-Wagholi 71.
Aundh-Baner also leads the Pune dengue count for the year, with 364 confirmed cases between 1 January and 30 October. The ward has been near the top of the list all year, along with Kothrud and the Nagar Road area, which were named as hotspots in earlier civic reports.
The spread is not confined to one part of the city. Cases have been reported across all 15 ward offices, and the Pune dengue pattern has shifted from the older neighbourhoods to high-rise housing societies, where a joint survey by the civic body and the state health department found stagnant water in air-conditioner trays, indoor planters and stored-water containers.
Dengue is spread by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which breeds in clean standing water in and around homes. Most people who catch it develop a high fever with severe headache, pain behind the eyes and joint pain, and recover within a week. A small share develop severe dengue, with bleeding or a sharp fall in blood pressure, and need hospital care. There is no specific drug for the infection, so treatment rests on rest, fluids and care for the symptoms. That is why the Pune dengue response leans so hard on finding and clearing breeding sites before mosquitoes hatch.
What the civic body is doing about breeding sites
Pune Municipal Corporation teams have inspected about 1.4 million homes and 2.83 million water containers this year as part of the dengue control drive. By the middle of October, inspectors had found 2,651 active mosquito breeding spots in homes, offices, schools and housing societies.
The corporation issued show-cause notices to four ward malaria officers in October after Pune dengue cases rose, covering Kothrud, Nagar Road-Wadgaonsheri, Aundh-Baner and Dhankawadi-Sahakarnagar. Mosquito nets have been made mandatory in dengue wards, and patients with severe symptoms are to be treated at Kamala Nehru Hospital and Dr Naidu Hospital.
Municipal Commissioner Navalkishor Ram reviewed preparedness at Dr Naidu Infectious Diseases Hospital in Baner in October and told officials to give priority to areas reporting higher numbers. Spraying and fogging have been stepped up in the worst-affected wards.
Pune dengue and the year so far
The Pune dengue total for 2026 is already close to last year’s. Pune recorded 2,391 dengue cases in 2025, and the 2026 confirmed count of 2,486 through 30 October has passed it with two months of the year still to run. In 2024, the city recorded 4,908 cases.
Health officials say the risk has not passed with the monsoon. Mosquitoes breed in water that collects indoors and on rooftops through the year, and the post-monsoon months have now produced the highest counts. Residents have been asked to empty containers, trays and planters each week and to seek care early if fever follows a mosquito bite, since early treatment keeps most cases from turning severe.