The weekly Health Surveillance report states that, in the last three weeks, the average number of notifications of suspected dengue cases is 103.
In this last week evaluated, 76 notifications were registered, 23 less than what was registered the previous week, according to partial data.
So far this year, there have been 4,723 notifications of suspected dengue in the national territory, of which 184 are cases of the disease, 4 of them correspond to new cases, two identified in Fuerte Olimpo and another in Carmelo Peralta (Alto Paraguay). ), and one from Limpio (Central).
So far this epidemic period, two circulating serotypes have been observed:
*DEN-1: in Itapúa, Canindeyú, Boquerón and Alto Paraguay.
*DEN-2: in Guaira and Pdte. There is.
Cocirculation of both serotypes in Asunción, Caaguazú, Central and the department of Amambay.
With regard to chikungunya, there were 408 notifications of suspicious cases, 155 of which were identified cases of chikungunya.
Of these, 5 were registered this week, 4 located in Central, three in the districts of Mariano Roque Alonso and one in Limpio; and one case from the Mokayaty neighborhood of Asunción.
At the national level, 88% of chikungunya cases are concentrated in Central (121) and Asunción (15). No cases are recorded in 11 departments.
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