The five locations are Serangoon Central, Serangoon North, Jurong East, Jurong West and an expansion of an existing study site in Hougang.
File photo of Wolbachia mosquitoes being released at a residential site in Clementi on Feb 20, 2024. SINGAPORE: Male Wolbachia -carrying mosquitoes will be released at five additional sites to suppress the aedes mosquito population and mitigate the risk of dengue outbreaks, announced the National Environment Agency on Thursday .
Releases, which will be conducted twice a week, begin this quarter for the sites in Serangoon and Hougang, while the two remaining sites in Jurong will begin the releases in the first quarter of next year.The sites in Hougang where male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes will be released from Oct 21. The site in Serangoon North where male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes will be released this year.
The expansion comes after NEA saw an 80 to 90 per cent drop in the Aedes aegypti mosquito population in its multi-site field study. Speaking to reporters at a community event on Thursday, Sustainability and the Environment Minister Grace Fu said the average monthly number of dengue cases has reduced from 3,000 cases from 2022 - when Singapore experienced a dengue outbreak - to 1,300 this year.
“We have to conclude the study so that we can compare the results. So it's not just about number of cases, because the number of cases is also dependent on issues such as weather and … whether we have an outbreak,” she said.
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