{"id":139758,"date":"2024-01-16T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139758"},"modified":"2024-01-16T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:43:18","slug":"sri-lanka-faces-soaring-dengue-cases-logs-380-cases-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/16\/sri-lanka-faces-soaring-dengue-cases-logs-380-cases-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka faces soaring Dengue cases, logs 380 cases daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<span class=\"a-profile\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/SHEAIN-FERNANDOPULLE\/577\">SHEAIN FERNANDOPULLE Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Jan 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; &nbsp;Sri Lanka is grappling with a surge in Dengue fever cases, logging a staggering 380 cases per day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health experts have raised alarm bells as the country battles this alarming spike in mosquito-borne illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest data from the Epidemiology Unit, as of January 15, reveals a total of 5,829 reported Dengue cases, with a significant concentration of over 1,700 cases reported from the Western Province alone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The capital city, Colombo, remains a hotspot, contributing to a substantial portion of the reported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of the alarming development, the Health Ministry declared a special Dengue prevention week starting from January 07 to 13 where cleaning campaigns as well as dengue prevention and awareness campaigns were carried out islandwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 2023 witnessed a record number of 88,398 Dengue cases, with Colombo District reporting the highest incidence at 18,650 cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December marked a particularly distressing month, recording 11,498 cases, the highest monthly tally for Dengue in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health authorities are intensifying efforts to curb the spread of Dengue fever, urging communities to take preventive measures and raising awareness about mosquito breeding grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0SHEAIN FERNANDOPULLE Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; &nbsp;Sri Lanka is grappling with a surge in Dengue fever cases, logging a staggering 380 cases per day.&nbsp; Health experts have raised alarm bells as the country battles this alarming spike in mosquito-borne illnesses. The latest data from the Epidemiology Unit, as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}