Despite a sudden rise in the number of dengue cases in some regions, the Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said it still will not declare a state of calamity in the country.

Data from the DOH-Epidemiology Bureau for the first nine months of 2015 showed a total of 78,808 dengue cases as of September 5, a 16.5-percent increase from the same period in 2014 with 67,637 cases.

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