Bangalore, DHNS: Instances of chikungunya continued to spiral in Bangalore City with over 260 suspected cases of the disease being reported since June 14 at K C General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital. About 36 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday. Most patients affected by the vector-borne disease were from Sriramapura, Ramchandrapura, Prakashnagar, Nagappa Garden, RC Pura, Bhashyam Nagar, Yeshwantpur and Malleswaram. At the "chikungunya ward' in K C General Hospital here, five patients were admitted in a critical condition. There was a spurt in the number of outpatients on Wednesday compared to the last two days: as against 22 cases reported on Monday (13 female and 9 male) and 14 on Tuesday (three female and 11 male), 27 cases (16 female, 11 male) had been reported by 3 pm on Wednesday. Outpatients usually take two to five days to recover from chikungunya unless it's severe, Senior Specialist, K C General Hospital, Dr Shivaprasad said. At the Sriramapura Referral Hospital of the BBMP, 196 suspected chikungunya cases have been reported since June 14, with nine fresh cases being reported on Wednesday. Of the 21 samples sent to the Public Health Institute for testing, seven cases were confirmed for chikungunya. Only five per cent of the samples of the fever cases were sufficient to diagnose the disease, Dr H N Gangalakshmi, Medical Superintendent, Sriramapura Referral Hospital, said. Treatment, however, does not depend on the confirmation of the tests as patients were being treated based on symptoms, she pointed out. Suspected cases of the vector-borne disease have been trickling in at private hospitals too. Dr Chowti, Chief of Medicine, Mallya Hospital said while the number of cases reported in the hospital were not as high as it was two years ago, it could rise after the rains. Raging in DK dt Meanwhile, chikungunya is raging in Dakshina Kannada district with the number of suspected cases touching 20,000. Kodagu, Mysore and Belgaum districts have reported a few hundred instances each of the disease.