Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-01
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed that the number of new dengue
Dengue in K-town remains at peak. Central News Agency
fever cases nationwide hit 277 on Saturday, of which 214 came from Kaohsiung alone, reports said Sunday.
The outbreak in Taiwan’s southern port city is still in its peak as daily cases of the mosquito-borne disease have failed to show signs of relenting, the CDC said.
Compared to Kaohsiung, the situation in neighboring Tainan appears to be improving, it said.
As of Saturday, Tainan had reported 56 new cases, but that was 35 fewer than the figure it reported on the same day last week.
The number of accumulated confirmed cases there now stands at 21,744, out of a total of 29,329 cases nationwide, CDC data showed.
However, the endemic continues unabated in neighboring Kaohsiung city, where it showed an increase of 30 cases from the same day last Saturday. [FULL STORY]
