SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) has launched an “intensive” two-week vector control to break dengue transmission as the number of cases appears set to surge beyond Singapore’s worst outbreak in 2013.

As of Thursday (Jul 23), there were nearly 20,000 dengue cases this year, with the number of cases “escalating”, NEA said in a media release on Friday. The number of cases is set to surpass the 22,170 cases reported in 2013 – Singapore’s worst outbreak.