The number of cases of dengue has gone up in Colombo District this year compared to last year, despite a sharp drop in the number of cases in the country as a whole, according to Health Ministry sources.
Last year, the number of recorded cases of dengue in the country was 31,553, whereas the statistics of the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry has recorded only 18,954 cases for the first nine months of this year.
The number of deaths due to dengue islandwide had gone down from 246 last year to 139 in the first nine months of this year.
The Health Ministry has attributed the decline to the assistance given by the public to control mosquitoes.
Meanwhile the number of cases of dengue in Colombo had shot up from 5,942 last year to 7,392 so far for this year. The number of deaths due to the disease in Colombo had gone up from 58 to 64 during the same two periods.
According to the Epidemiology Unit 60 percent of the country's dengue cases were reported from the relatively densely populated Western Province.
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