DOH: Cordillera dengue down 78% with 539 cases
>> Friday, July 24, 2020
By Liza Agoot
BAGUIO CITY – The
Department of Health in the Cordillera Administrative Region reported a 78-percent
decrease in dengue cases from Jan. 1 to June 6.
Based on the
DOH-CAR report, the region recorded 539 cases during the period -- a 78-percent
drop compared to 2,544 cases during same period in 2019.
This year’s
record also showed there were two deaths-- involving a 15-year-old girl and a
nine-year-old boy in Baguio -- attributed to dengue while there were six deaths
last year.
The report
showed Benguet topped list of cases this year with 200 or a 52-percent drop;
Kalinga, 81 or a 73-percent drop; Apayao, 68 or 86-percent drop; Baguio, 55 or
52-percent decrease; Ifugao and Abra, 34 each with an 86-percent and 85-percent
drop respectively; and Mountain Province with 21 or 88-percent drop in cases.
“There is no
clustering of cases. The region is not in the alert threshold but some
provinces in the region were observed to exceed the epidemic threshold,” the
report said.
There were 46
cases involving non-CAR residents compared to last year’s 448.
The drop in
the number of cases involving non-residents is attributed to the declaration of
the enhanced community quarantine, where restrictions were implemented at the
borders of the local governments, including here where the Baguio General
Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) is located.
The report
also showed that the ages of patients were from eight months to 90 years old
and 62 percent of the total cases involved men.
The City
Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit earlier reminded the public to continue
maintaining a clean surrounding and destroy the breeding grounds of
dengue-carrying mosquitoes in the communities. (PNA)
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