Amazonas has more than 32,000 cases of malaria reported in the first half of 2018 | Amazonas

Only until June 21, 32,503 cases had already been reported. In 2017, the number of cases reached 81,302, an increase of 65% over the previous year.

Together, municipalities in the Alto Rio Negro region, such as São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Barcelos and Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, accounted for 11,765 reported cases, or about 53% of the total. On the 18th of this month, the state government decreed an emergency situation in these municipalities, which show a growth of P. falciparum malaria, the lethal type of the disease.

Even with distance, Manaus also has a high rate of illness, with 3,836 cases reported.

Currently, Amazonas has 10,768 sites registered in the Malaria Epidemiological Surveillance System of the Ministry of Health, of which 4,487 have active transmission of the disease. The state is considered the greatest risk of disease transmission in Brazil, which is concentrated mainly in riparian and indigenous areas.

As information, the State Department of Health (Susam) reported that in addition to Alto Rio Negro, 13 other municipalities are among the priorities in the fight actions against malaria, including the capital.