Mother’s Day weekend had concentrated action in cemeteries, since Friday, to avoid the emergence of new breeding sites
The City Hall of Catanduva released a press release on Monday, 9, with the confirmation of 1,550 positive cases of dengue since the beginning of the year. Another 354 exams are under investigation. No other details were released about the spread of Aedes in the city.
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After the end of Mother’s Day, the City Hall says that the focus of the Municipal Team to Combat Aedes aegypti (EMCAa) was the aftermath work in the cemeteries. “The agents made a sweep in the midst of tombs and deposits and collected possible breeding sites for the dengue mosquito, such as small plates and plastic bags that involve vases”, he informed.
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The action in the cemeteries began on Friday, the 6th, before Mother’s Day, which is when these places attract large-scale visitors to the tributes. With a focus on this public, agents were on duty at the gates of cemeteries to bar the entry of objects that could accumulate water and become mosquito breeding sites.
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When approaching visitors, material was also distributed with information on the importance of combating dengue and symptoms of the disease. Banners were also set up around the cemeteries warning about the dangers of dengue.
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The confirmation of 1,500 positive diagnoses of dengue in Catanduva indicates that, in just over four months of 2022, the municipality has already recorded three times more cases of the disease than in the whole of last year, when there were 456 confirmations in 12 months. .
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