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Enteric cases cross 200

KOLKATA, Sept. 10: A day after 173 people were suspected to have been affected with enteric in Rabindra Pally and Purba Phulbagan areas of Jadavpur, over 50 more people were detected with similar symptoms today. This took the toll of affected people to over 200. While the leakage in the water supply line, which is suspected to have caused the outbreak in the area, has been repaired by engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the water supplied to the area has still not been declared fit for consumption. Engineers said that chlorination of the water is being carried out.

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