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JAKARTA: The Jakarta Health Agency has recorded that at least 2,600 dengue fever cases have been reported in Jakarta and many of them occurred in upscale housing complexes
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AKARTA: The Jakarta Health Agency has recorded that at least 2,600 dengue fever cases have been reported in Jakarta and many of them occurred in upscale housing complexes. Agency head Kusmedi Priharto said during an anti-mosquito campaign in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, on Friday that the data was gathered from five municipalities and one regency in the last two months.
Kusmedi said that areas that had a high number of cases included Kelapa Gading with 65 cases and Setiabudi in South Jakarta with 62 cases.
'Most of them happen in high-class residential areas,' he said.
Kusmedi said that the number of mosquito larvae controllers, locally known as jumantik, was not adequate.
'I hope that one house can have its personal jumantik,' he said.
He said that his agency intensified the mosquito raids from once a week to twice.
Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said previously that the fogging officers complained that many owners of houses in elite areas did not allow them to fog their houses.
