Dengue cases hit 200 in Naga City; state of calamity declared was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Tuesday, 8 September 2026 at 10:20 UTC. The event is classified as a epidemic incident with a severity rating of Moderate, and was detected through PRESS.
Reported by Inquirer, a national news outlet in Philippines, with the location identified as Naga. Read directly from the publisher's own feed rather than through a news aggregator.
Where this happened
The incident is located in Philippines (Asia), whose capital is Manila. Historically, Philippines is most affected by typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods. You can follow every incident recorded in this country, updated live, on the Philippines incident tracker.
Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 13.619°, 123.181°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.
Understanding epidemic events
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How severity is rated
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Data and verification
This record was generated automatically from PRESS and de-duplicated against our archive. Early reports for any incident can be revised: locations get refined, magnitudes are recalculated and impact figures change as assessments arrive. We deliberately do not publish casualty numbers unless an official source states them. The original source report is linked at the top of this page.
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Timeline and sources
Reported
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· receivedFirst report News report
First recorded from National press.
Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.
Conditions at the time
12.1 mm of rain fell that day, and the temperature peaked at 30°C.
Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.