By Rathindra Kuruwita
About 25 percent of Sri Lanka’s dengue patients were schoolchildren, a Health Ministry official said on Sunday.Dr. Nalin Ariyaratne, the Director of the National Dengue Control Unit said there were over 42,000 dengue cases.
Addressing the media, a day before schools opened for a new academic term, he said the spread of dengue, at school level, had to be curbed, as a national priority.He said around 50 percent of cases had been reported from the Western Province.
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