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BACOLOD CITY — Three provinces in the Western Visayas still have the highest number of dengue cases in the region, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Tuesday, August 30.
Negros Occidental logged the highest number of cases at 3,648 with 24 deaths or more than one third of the total cases in Western Visayas for this year.
Antique has 2,213 cases and 10 deaths, followed by Iloilo province (2,079 cases and 16 deaths), Iloilo City (793 cases and one death), Bacolod City (669 cases and eight deaths), Capiz (526 cases and one death), Aklan (517 cases and three deaths), and Guimaras (182 cases and no deaths).
Western Visayas had 414 new dengue cases and four deaths from August 14 to 20, bringing the number of cases since January 2022 to 10,899 cases and 63 deaths.
The cases from January 1 to August 20 are 600 percent higher than in the same period last year, the DOH report said.