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JAKARTA - Jakarta increased the number of so-called 'dengue red zones' from 61 to 88 according to Antara News Agency. "In our weekly evaluation of the dengue fever situation, there were 88 zones in Jakarta been established as red-alert areas today, " told Salimar Salim, deputy head of the Jakarta City Health Office on the day of the launch of a dengue prevention program.
She said that the city administration was to intensify dengue-prevention measures in the areas currently affected and would also protect other areas to prevent the disease from spreading and worsening. Information collected by city health offices showed that at least 3.389 people in the city of Jakarta were contaminated with dengue since the start of this year. Most of them were from south Jakarta.
Eight out of the total number of dengue sufferers died in January and this month already four people died. Meanwhile a dengue-prevention program has been started up in the eight provinces with the highest number of dengue cases as well. These eight provinces are South Sumatra, Lampung, Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and East Kalimantan. All these provinces were marked as 'red zones' as well, with a total number of sufferer currently at 1.500.
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