SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Total 20 people died of dengue in Singapore last year, more than the originally reported eight fatalities, local English daily The Straits Times reported Wednesday.
This is nearly three times the number who lost their lives to the bite of the Aedes mosquito in 2006, when seven died, and not much lower than in 2005, when 25 were killed in the worst dengue outbreak here to date.
The proportion of deaths to the total number of reported cases of 8,826 last year is 0.2 percent, similar to that in 2006.
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