Filipino patients stay inside the dengue room at the San Lazaro government hospital in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The Philippines' Department of Health on Tuesday declared the country's outbreak of dengue to be a national epidemic. It said the Philippines recorded 146,062 cases of dengue from January through July 20 this year, 98% more than the same period in 2018. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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DOH, inihayag na 45% ang itinaas ng kaso ng dengue ngayong taon

June 28, 2022
BNFM Makati

Inihayag ng Department of Health (DOH) na nasa 45% ang itinaas ng kaso ng dengue ngayong taon.

Ayon sa DOH, umabot sa 45,416 ang dengue cases simula January 1 hanggang June 11 2022 kung saan nasa 31,320 ito noong 2021.

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Nagtala ang ilang lugar ng most number of cases kabilang ang Central Visayas, Central Luzon at Zamboanga Peninsula.

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Samantala, nauna ng inabisuhan ni DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire ang publiko na hanapin at sirain ang breeding places ng mga lamok upang maiwasan ang paglanap nito.

(ARGIE ERGINA)