TANGERANG  Dengue patients flood the general hospital in Tangerang. According to the latest information there are now some 400 patients being treated in the hospital since the start of this year. A number of rooms in the hospital is now completely filled with dengue patients. In general the patients are still treatable.

Every day now some 15 new patients come to the hospital with dengue after they have been bitten by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the one that transmits the disease. This increase of patients however is no reason for the local government to declare some sort of special condition on dengue fever as yet.

JAKARTA Indonesia lifted a tsunami alert issued after a powerful 7.2-magnitude quake struck off the west coast of Sumatra island on Monday, the geophysics and meteorological agency said. “The tsunami warning has ended after the 7.2-magnitude quake,” the agency said in a text message.

The quake hit 165 kilometres northwest of Sumatra’s Mukomuko at 3:36 pm local time at a depth of 10 kilometres, the agency said. The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 7.3 and said it occurred at a depth of 35 kilometres. The quake was felt in tall buildings in the capital Jakarta, where pictures swayed on walls.

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