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. 2021 Oct 8;15(10):e0009778.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009778. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Dengue outbreaks in the COVID-19 era: Alarm raised for Asia

Xinting Lu  1 , Hilary Bambrick  1 , Puntani Pongsumpun  2 , Pandji Wibawa Dhewantara  3 , Do Thi Thanh Toan  4 , Wenbiao Hu  1
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Dengue outbreaks in the COVID-19 era: Alarm raised for Asia

Xinting Lu et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Dengue IRR (95% CI) (2020 versus 2015–2019 average) in the context of incidence of COVID-19 (per 100,000 population) in 2020 for Australia, China (Mainland), Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
ArcGIS software (version: 10.8) was used to create the map. All digital boundary shapefiles are in the public domain (Thailand: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/thailand-administrative-boundaries; Vietnam: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/viet-nam-administrative-boundaries-polygon-polyline; Indonesia: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/indonesia-administrative-boundary-polygons-lines-and-places-levels-0-4b; China (Mainland): https://data.humdata.org/dataset/china-administrative-boundaries; and Australia: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026/access-and-downloads/digital-boundary-files). CI, confidence interval; COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019; IRR, incidence rate ratio.
Fig 2
Fig 2. Reported monthly case numbers of dengue in Australia, China (Mainland), Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam for 2015–2019 average, and in 2020, shown against monthly cases of COVID-19 in 2020.
COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019.
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