A total of 82,840 dengue fever cases were recorded until Dec 23 this year, a drop of 17.2 per cent from the 100,028 cases recorded in 2016.
171 people died from the disease – a 26 per cent drop from the 231 deaths reported for the same period last year.
As of Dec 23, 303 dengue outbreak areas are still considered “active”, including 20 hotspots nationwide. They comprise 10 locations in Selangor, four in Johor, three in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, two in Perak, and one in Penang. Public must help authorities search and destroy breeding sites of the aedes mosquito in their respective homes.
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