Dengue cases in Western Visayas this year hit 7,096 with 26 deaths, the Department of Health in Region 6 reported.
The number of dengue cases from Jan. 1 to Dec. 2 were still 53 percent lower than last year’s 14, 962, the DOH said.
It said Negros Occidental had 1,234 cases and nine deaths and Bacolod City had 553 cases and three deaths this year.
The DOH said from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2 there were 56 new dengue cases with no deaths in Western Visayas, of which Bacolod had 10 and Negros Occidental – 2.
The dengue cases this year in Aklan were 1,086 with four deaths, Antique – 447 and no deaths, Capiz – 866 with four deaths, Guimaras – 220 with one death, Iloilo City – 1,052 with three deaths and Iloilo province – 1,638 and two deaths, the DOH reported.*