No plans yet to make dengue jabs mandatory, says health ministry

📆 6/5/2024 7:31 AM
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PETALING JAYA: The government does not currently plan to make dengue vaccinations mandatory despite the surge in cases over the first three months of 2024 and the whole of last year, the health ministry says.

He also encouraged members of the public to get inoculated against dengue at the nearest health facility. The health ministry said in January that there had been an 86.3% spike in the number of dengue cases in 2023.The total number of deaths reported due to complications from dengue last year stood at 100 – an increase of 44 deaths from the 56 recorded in 2022.

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