21
May
2020
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21:04
Asia/Singapore

Rising risk of dengue during COVID-19

Dr Ruklanthi de Alwis a Senior Research Fellow, Dr Chen Shiwei a Research Fellow and Ms Amanda Makha Bifani a PhD student, all from the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at the Duke-NUS Medical School, discussed the raising risk of dengue during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the challenges of a dual outbreak, and considerations beyond the circuit breaker, as restrictions are set to ease after 1 June.