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06-25-2007, 06:00 PM
Minister for Public Health Bautista Rojas Gomez has told reporters that the two-day nationwide campaign to fight dengue fever had been a success. According to Hoy, the minister said that the number of homes visited by the volunteers and workers was beyond the first estimates, but he said that exact numbers would not be available until Tuesday. The campaign emphasized the need to wash water tanks with chlorine and to keep the tanks covered to avoid infestation and breeding of mosquitoes. In Santiago, reporters were told that 123,860 homes had been visited during the first day of the campaign and that 44,058 mosquito-breeding sites were eliminated. According to the newspaper, the campaign will continue for the next 60 days.
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