Singapore fights the biggest dengue outbreak in history
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Singapore fights the biggest dengue outbreak in history

Singapore, a small southeast Asian country with a population of 5.7 million reported more than 26,000 dengue cases this year surpassing the previous annual record of around 22,000 in 2013 with four months to go. Twenty people have died of dengue this year. By comparison, only 27 people have died of the coronavirus in the city-state out of over 56,000 infections

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