A national project to fight dengue using specially bred male mosquitoes will be scaled up significantly to reach nearly a third of all Housing Board blocks here from next month. This comes amid concerns that infections here will continue rising.
Weekly cases may soon cross 2,000, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu yesterday. This means they will surpass the highest weekly figure of 1,787 cases, seen in 2020.
To rein these in, she announced that Project Wolbachia, which has been effective in controlling the population of dengue-spreading mosquitoes, will be expanded to another 1,400 HDB blocks from next month.
This means the project, currently active in 1,800 blocks, will cover more than 300,000 homes, nearly twice the 160,000 homes currently, and about 31 per cent of HDB blocks in Singapore.
She was delivering the keynote address at the fifth Asia Dengue Summit, which brought together more than 200 experts and policymakers from across Asia to discuss dengue management strategies for the region.
This story is from the June 16, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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