{"id":147554,"date":"2025-01-23T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147554"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:34:53","slug":"over-3600-dengue-cases-2-deaths-reported-in-first-three-weeks-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/23\/over-3600-dengue-cases-2-deaths-reported-in-first-three-weeks-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3,600 dengue cases, 2 deaths reported in first three weeks of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) says that 3,649 dengue cases have been reported in the country within the first three weeks of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, two dengue-related deaths have been reported during this period, the NDCU reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Western Province has recorded the highest number of cases, totaling 1,576. Of these, 491 patients are from Colombo District, 558 from Gampaha, and 95 from Kalutara District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDCU also mentioned that 22 Medical Officer of Health (MOH) divisions across the island have been identified as high-risk areas for dengue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) says that 3,649 dengue cases have been reported in the country within the first three weeks of this year. Furthermore, two dengue-related deaths have been reported during this period, the NDCU reported. The Western Province has recorded the highest number of cases, totaling 1,576. Of these, 491 [&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-147554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147554","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=147554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}