Singapore: 2022 Dengue

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Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dengue-cases-singapore-rising-2022-nea-2554431


Dengue cases rising sharply in Singapore, 'urgent collective community effort' needed to fight surge: NEA
10 Mar 2022 03:17PM (Updated: 10 Mar 2022 06:44PM)

SINGAPORE: Dengue cases are rising sharply in Singapore, with 264 cases reported in the week ending Mar 5, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Thursday (Mar 10).

This is an increase of 65 cases compared to the week before - a spike of more than 32 per cent.

The number of dengue cases in Singapore has been on the rise for eight weeks, with a total of more than 1,500 cases reported so far this year...

 

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Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-so-far-this-year-more-than-for-whole-of-2021

Close to 5,500 dengue cases recorded in S'pore so far this year, more than for whole of 2021
Shabana Begum
Published
8 Hours Ago

SINGAPORE - Close to 5,500 dengue cases have been reported here so far this year, exceeding the total number of cases recorded in the whole of last year, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu on Sunday (April 24).

A total of 5,258 cases were logged in 2021.

The week ending on April 22 saw 746 dengue infections. This is the highest seven-day figure since the week of Aug 30 to Sept 5 in 2020, when 937 cases were reported.

"This is a worrying trend as we are only in April, and we expect a surge in the number of dengue cases in the coming months," said Ms Fu. She was speaking at the 2022 edition of the Public Health Council's Keep Clean, Singapore! campaign launch.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) has said that Singapore is currently facing a serious dengue situation and could see a major outbreak this year...

 

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Source: https://youthopia.sg/read/dengue-cases-in-singapore-are-on-the-rise-with-220-active-clusters/

Dengue cases in Singapore are on the rise with 220 active clusters
54 of the 220 active clusters are considered high-risk areas with 10 or more cases each.

The number of dengue cases in Singapore continues to rise, with 220 active dengue clusters reported as of May 9.

The current number of active clusters is at its highest this year, crossing the 200 cluster mark within the past two weeks.

In total, 7,521 cases have been reported this year. This number surpasses the total of 5,258 cases logged in the entirety of 2021.

Out of the 220 clusters currently, 54 of them have a red-alert level, which indicates a high-risk area with 10 or more dengue cases...

 

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Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dengue-singapore-record-cases-aedes-mosquito-nea-2725231

Immediate action needed to fight dengue as cases this month expected to break weekly record high: NEA
Aqil Haziq Mahmud
03 Jun 2022 05:00PM (Updated: 03 Jun 2022 10:26PM)

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) has urged everyone to take “immediate action” as dengue cases in June are expected to break a weekly record high.

“Singapore is currently facing a serious dengue situation, as the reported number of weekly dengue cases continues to rise sharply,” the agency said in a news release on Friday (Jun 3).

“This number is expected to hit another historical peak, surpassing the highest weekly figure of 1,787 cases seen in 2020, and may even exceed 2,000 in the month of June, which is just the beginning of the traditional peak dengue season.”...

 

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Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-13/singapore-dengue-fever-cases-rise-emergency/101141234

Singapore is facing a dengue fever 'emergency' and peak season has only just begun
By Annika Burgess and Joshua Boscaini
Posted 53m ago
53 minutes ago, updated 15m ago

Key points:

In the first week of June, cases were up 285 per cent compared to last year
The health ministry expects infections to reach a "historical peak"
Experts say warmer temperatures and lack of immunity are the possible causes

Soe Sint San remembers being hospitalised with a severe case of dengue fever when she was around eight years old.

She caught it visiting Myanmar and was placed on a drip with high fevers.

It took her 10 days to recover...

 

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Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/weekly-dengue-cases-fallen-70-per-cent-peak-may-nea-031022208.html

Weekly dengue cases fallen by 70 per cent since peak in May: NEA
Chia Han Keong
Sun, October 9, 2022 at 11:10 p.m.·2 min read

SINGAPORE — Weekly dengue cases have declined by about 70 per cent from its peak in May this year, with 427 reported between 3 and 9 October, 46 cases fewer from the week before.

As of last Friday (7 October), there are 142 dengue clusters reported, six clusters fewer than the 148 clusters reported in the previous week.

Overall, 95 per cent of the dengue clusters reported since the start of this year have been closed, even as some clusters continue to have relatively fast rates of transmission, such as in Clementi West Street 2, Jurong East Street 21, Jurong West Avenue 5 and Rivervale Crescent.

Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and the Environment, on Monday thanked the public and community partners for their efforts in managing the outbreak...

 

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Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ses-reported-in-2022-6-times-that-of-2021-nea

More than 30,000 dengue cases reported in 2022, six times that of 2021: NEA
Published
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SINGAPORE – A total of 30,969 dengue cases have been reported here so far in 2022, as at last Friday – almost six times that of the whole of 2021.

Weekly figures also remain high, leading the authorities to warn that the elevated numbers could portend another outbreak in 2023.

In an update on the dengue situation on Monday, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said that although weekly dengue cases had declined by about 80 per cent from the peak in May, when they hit a high of 1,568, the current tally of between 200 and 300 new cases each week was still high for this time of year.

This was about 20 per cent more than the average number of cases reported for the same period in the preceding three years, it added...

 

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Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...in-2022-likely-to-be-second-highest-on-record

Number of dengue cases in 2022 likely to be second highest on record
Zhaki Abdullah
Updated 58 Mins Ago

SINGAPORE – The number of dengue cases in Singapore in 2022 looks set to be the second highest on record, based on figures on the National Environment Agency (NEA) website.

As at 3pm on Dec 30, 32,097 dengue cases had been reported – amounting to 91 per cent of the record high of 35,315 cases recorded in 2020. The previous annual record high was in 2013, when there were 22,170 cases.

NEA has previously attributed 2022’s high number of cases to the DenV-3 strain of the dengue virus, against which the population here has lower immunity.

Observers pointed to other possible reasons for the high number.

Climate conditions and temperature changes could have resulted in more mosquitoes here, said dengue expert Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine...

 

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Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-deaths-in-2022-nearly-four-times-2021-s-toll

Singapore records 19 dengue deaths in 2022, nearly four times 2021’s toll
Zhaki Abdullah
Updated 2 Hours Ago

SINGAPORE - There were 19 deaths from dengue in Singapore in 2022, with four of them reported in the last quarter of the year, according to figures from the National Environment Agency (NEA).

This is nearly four times the number of dengue deaths in 2021, when five people died of the disease.

The highest number of dengue deaths recorded in a year in Singapore was 32, in 2020. The previous high was 25 in 2005.

A total of 32,325 dengue cases were reported in 2022, according NEA’s quarterly dengue surveillance data for October to December 2022, which was released on Tuesday.

This is the second-highest number of cases in a year – the record high being 35,315 cases in 2020....