The Municipal Health Secretariat (SMS) of São Paulo confirmed, this Thursday (22), that it rose to 14 The number of deaths by dengue In the city this year alone. The Municipality has almost 47 thousand cases of the disease according to the last epidemiological bulletin, released on Wednesday (21).
The number of cases already exceeds that of each of the last nine years – except 2024, year of outbreak of the disease – in Only five months . The confirmed deaths are also higher than previous years and are only behind 2015 and 2024, which recorded 25 and 526 deaths, respectively.
In the city of São Paulo, 45 neighborhoods are in an epidemic situation that is, register More than 300 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants according to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO) and adopted by the Ministry of Health. The South Zone is one of the most affected, with Only three of the fifteen neighborhoods outside the epidemic situation.
In a statement, the portfolio reported that the Health Surveillance Coordination (Covisa) maintains constant monitoring of the epidemiological situation of dengue in the capital and performs daily prevention and combat actions.
In 2025, more than 5.6 million shares which include home visits, breeding blocks, nebulizers, application of larvicides at strategic points and with drones in difficult places, as well as educational campaigns to raise awareness of the population.
The mayor highlights the numbers of more than 93,000 properties were visited in role blocking actions and more than 6,200 blocks underwent nebulization.
Almost 700 deaths in the state of São Paulo
In the state of São Paulo, 699 deaths were confirmed by dengue and 500 deaths in investigation, according to the Panel of the State Department of Health (SES).
São Paulo counts almost 770,000 probable cases for the disease and 1,148 cases of severe dengue, a complication that can lead to death.
The cities of Araraquara and São José do Rio Preto have the highest incidence of cases with more than 6,200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
This content was originally published to 14 the number of dead by dengue in the city of SP on the website CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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