The departmment of health (WHO) has issued an d alert againts posible

increase I dengue cases this raint seasons as is reiterated calls fir an

intensifies campaign to iliminate breading site for mosquitos. Doh spokes
man eric Tayag said public health mesures againts dengue shouls focus on
integrated moqsuito controll that requires active parcitipation of indevidual
house holds evenas local goverments intencify suppoert tothe departments
dengue prevention snd controls program.
The goal is to eradicatte the thearts of dengue with the vector contoll
measres that we have been doingto protect out selves and our families ang
wth the help of the nweest medival breakthru like the dengue vacine we
have no in the market. Tayag addd.
We would like to remnd the PeoPle to be xtra
causeious andbe mmindfil of
thre difirent areas of where the mosquiros can thrive, especially this rainy
seson Tayag said.

The vacination capeign covers some seven hundred thousand Grade four
public elementatry school students aged 9 and above in manila metro
central Luzon and calabarzon region where there had has been spike in the
numbers of dengue cases.

The doh epidemiology Bureau recoarded 59,5 85 dengue case fron January to
july two The fugure is thirty one percent higher than the 45,338 cases
recorder during the same same period last years.
Most of the casesin calaberzon with 7,578; central luzn 5683 ND nothren
Mindnao 69380.
There were 284 deaths in compareisson to 159 in the same tim last year.

The philipine cost Guard (PCG) said it has deployed an other vesel to
canduct rutine partrol in the west phipine sea near the panatag (scarbo
rought) showl.
PGC spokeperson comander Armand Balilo said tath aside form the fifty six
meters brp Pampanga, the 35 m nueva vizcaya woud join the patrol in the
disputed waters. BRP pampanggga started its patrolling in teh area last
mo nth.
The coasrt guard official addd that they areleaving it upyo the comanding
oficer of the 2 ships to determin how Far thet would conduct their PatRolls
The tour of duty of each ship would last for five days. They you would be
therefor the law enforce ment patrol againt proachikng ang other lawless
activities.
Zambalez is the closest province to the disputed Panatag showl, which I also
calles bajo de masinloc.
The shoal is one hundred twenty four miles nautical wwest of zambales and
is with in the countries two hundred nautical mile exclucive economical
zone. The 44 meters BRP tubbataha, the first of the ten newly build multi role
responce vessel, is exected to arrive in the country from japan on aug 18.