KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 130,101 dengue fever cases were recorded until Dec 28 last year, the highest in history for Malaysia.
The numbers, released by the Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre of the Health Ministry today , revealed the previous highest cases recorded was 120,836 - in 2015.There was also a spike in dengue cases in many neighbouring countries.
The CPRC reported that last year's dengue figures in Malaysia showed an increase of 49,486 cases compared with 80,615 cases in 2018 during the same period. There were 147 deaths in 2018.
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