Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq has blamed the mosquito population inside houses for spreading chikungunya.

As many as 566 people in the capital have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease, according to findings by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research which conducted laboratory tests on patients from mid-April till the first week of July.

At the end of last month, Ali Hossain Ripon had gone deep inside Thanchi upazila of Bandarban to cover the months-long food crisis that struck the impoverished people of the remote area.

Risk of Zika virus infection in Bangladesh is low as the countries affected by the mosquito-borne disease are far away, an expert said here yesterday.