Health Ministry requests vigilance over increase in dengue fever cases | Health

Dengue fever sufferers (Picture: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Well being has requested for extra drastic
measures to curb the unfold of dengue fever, given a excessive variety of new instances
recorded lately.

In response to the ministry, for the reason that starting of this yr
to June 24, Vietnam had reported round 77,000 dengue fever instances, up greater than
10,000 instances in comparison with that within the earlier week, and 30 fatalities.

This time is the height of the illness, with the southern
area and several other central localities being the hotbeds.

In that context, the ministry has issued a variety of steerage paperwork asking localities to make efforts to forestall the illness,
particularly because the COVID-19 pandemic shouldn’t be over.

The ministry has despatched seven delegations to examine
and direct dengue fever prevention within the hotbeds in June and July.

On June 27, Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son led a working
delegation to examine the work in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. As of June 24, town
alone had recorded 16,057 infections./.