13 dengue deaths in first half of 2024, more than double last year's total
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are pictured at a laboratory.
SINGAPORE — A total of 13 people died from dengue in the first half of 2024, more than double the total for last year.
Figures from the National Environment Agency's (NEA) latest dengue surveillance data, published on Wednesday (July 24), showed that six people died from April to June.
Seven deaths were reported in the first quarter of this year.
Singapore recorded six dengue deaths last year and 19 in 2022, when there was a dengue outbreak.
More than 10,100 cases have been reported so far this year, exceeding the total number recorded for the whole of 2023.
The threshold was crossed in the week of July 14 to July 20, when 236 cases were reported.
According to NEA's report, there were 4,090 dengue cases in the second quarter of this year, a 20.8 per cent decrease from the preceding three months.
Results of positive dengue samples tested between April and June showed that dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) accounted for 52.2 per cent of the infections.
It is followed by DENV-3, at 33.2 per cent.
In the last quarter, NEA identified 432 clusters, down 16 per cent from the first three months of this year.
Of the 432 clusters, 360 were closed in the same period.
NEA also detected about 4,800 mosquito breeding habitats in the second quarter, a 5 per cent decrease from the preceding three months. CNA
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