Ilocos Norte logs 115 new dengue cases was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Tuesday, 29 September 2026 at 15:20 UTC. The event is classified as a epidemic incident with a severity rating of Minor, and was detected through PRESS.

Reported by Inquirer, a national news outlet in Philippines. 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 12.900°, 121.800°. 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.

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How severity is rated

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Data and verification

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Timeline and sources

Reported

Reported by National press, News reports (Google News). Not independently confirmed. Copies of one syndicated story are counted once.

How statuses are decided · the number of reports is never treated as confirmation.

  1. · received
    First report News report

    First recorded from National press.

    National press ↗

  2. · received · event time 29 Sep 2026, 15:21 UTC
    Also reported News report

    Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Ilocos Norte logs 115 new dengue cases"

    News reports (Google News) ↗

Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. 2 reports are attached to this incident. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.

Conditions at the time

1.6mm
Rainfall that day
29°C
Maximum temperature
28°C
Minimum temperature
21km/h
Peak wind speed

Light rain of 1.6 mm was recorded, and the temperature peaked at 29°C.

Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.