Singapore goes on dengue blitz

The National Environment Agency has set up an additional Dengue Hotline - 1800-333-7777 - from Saturday to encourage more public feedback on mosquitoes. So far, response to the 1800-X-DENGUE hotline has been encouraging with about 1,000 calls a day - up three times from the usual.

Grassroots leaders, volunteers and MPs were out in force to locate and destroy mosquito-breeding sites this weekend. Taking the war against dengue to a new level, more than 700 trained volunteers from six organisations were out to track down mosquito-breeding sites at four dengue hotspots - Hougang, Ang Mo Kio, Yishun and Marsiling. At Hougang, they combed common areas and corridors, paying special attention to problem areas. Mr Yee Tuck Cheong, Volunteer from Singapore Soka Association, said: "These are the flower pots, the trays that need to be inverted, even along drainage, those that are being covered are not expose to sunlight, certain areas that are choked."

Mr Khoo Seow Poh, Director-General of Public Health at the National Environment Agency, said: "What we do these two days is to serve more like a baseline survey for town councils, for them to be more focused later to monitor potential breeding grounds in the weeks ahead."

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