{"id":909139,"date":"2026-09-29T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909139\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:00:15","slug":"sri-lanka-dengue-cases-top-100000-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909139\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Dengue cases top 100,000 for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 27, Sri Lanka health officials report 100,127 dengue fever cases since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The cases have been dropping since the peak this July, when nearly 30,000 cases were reported. In September so far, approximately 4600 cases have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>77 deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Gampaha and Colombo districts account for 40% of the cases.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!9WgQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f29b9de-f6a2-4dc6-934a-b0211de0362c_1191x667.webp\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6f29b9de-f6a2-4dc6-934a-b0211de0362c_1191.jpeg\" width=\"1191\" height=\"667\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6f29b9de-f6a2-4dc6-934a-b0211de0362c_1191x667.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:667,&quot;width&quot;:1191,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:113954,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/217886297?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f29b9de-f6a2-4dc6-934a-b0211de0362c_1191x667.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of September 27, Sri Lanka health officials report 100,127 dengue fever cases since the beginning of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-909139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}