The Commonwealth Games opened with a ceremony at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Monday. Australia started out strong, and won two of the first four swimming gold medals. Health is a major issue at the games, as Indian lawn bowls team official Ruptu Gogoi was admitted to a hospital over the weekend because of dengue fever, a sometimes life-threatening mosquito-borne disease. “”The Associated Press”" reported that English freestyle swimmer Steven Beckerleg said, “”We’ve been seeing them spraying frequently and the fact that one person has acquired it really doesn’t worry me.”" “”This is the peak season,”" said Dr. RN Singh, the chief medical officer of the New Delhi Municipal Corporation. “”Our teams have fanned out searching for breeding places in every nook and corner of New Delhi and spraying anti-larval medicines.”" Some other issues, like faulty weigh-in scales for boxing, were also reported. Only 200000 of the 1.7 million tickets for games had been sold by last week.
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