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DENGUE: Only eight premises closed

Only eight premises have been closed out of scores found with mosquito-breeding grounds nationwide in the month since the Government declared an all-out war against dengue.
Enforcement teams have continued to be lenient to owners of construction sites and factories, but that will have to change, Health Ministry's Communicable Disease Control Division director Dr Ramlee Rahmat said.
With the end of the dengue outbreak not yet in sight, enforcement teams have been told to go after repeat offenders.
All state and district health officers and local authorities have been directed to issue stop-work orders and close these premises, he said today.
"Dengue cases are rising and people are dying because of their lackadaisical attitude," Dr Ramlee said.