kochi the opposition councillors in kochi corporation have decided to strengthen protests against the lackadaisical attitude of authorities in conducting a mass campaign to create awareness on dengue in the wake of rising cases the councillors said they will intensify agitations if the corporation fails to act in the coming days dengue cases have increased in kochi city the authorities have failed to conduct a mass drive to create awareness among the residents on how to contain the spread of the disease the corporation authorities did convene a meeting but it is not enough a campaign has to be organized with peoples participation said m g aristotle secretary udf parliamentary party in kochi corporationat the same time mayor m anil kumar claimed that the corporation has been taking all possible measures to address the menace we held a meeting to review the situation and along with the government health department is taking actions on the basis of the meeting he said the most important factor is that the spread of dengue can be contained only by mosquito reduction the mosquito which spreads dengue breeds in pure water stored in small pots caps tyres in abandoned in households it is up to the residents to take steps to keep their premises clean he said the cases have started to decrease in many wards wewill soon convene yet another round of review meetings the mayor saidopposition leader antony kureethra said the absence of temporary workers deployed for cleaning works in each division has contributed to the increasing number of cases the corporation had deployed temporary workers for cleaning works in each division though their tenure ended authorities are yet to deploy a new batch he said he also alleged that the actual number of dengue cases in the city is 10 times the number reported by the health department as per the data released by the state health department divisions like vaduthala east vaduthala west edappally devankulangara karukappilly padivattom thammanam thrikkanarvattom have been recording the maximum cases in the city