Is anything worse than usual in Kalmunai right now?

Yes. Dengue is far above usual: 6.5× its usual for these weeks.

Far above usual · 6.5×

43 dengue cases a week, against a usual 6.5.

050100usual range2026JanAprJulOctWeek 14 of 2026: 4, as printedWeek 24 of 2026: 8, as printed

Week 14: the Ministry of Health's two reports disagree (4 here, from its Epidemiology Unit; 36 in its National Dengue Control Unit's weekly update). Shown as printed.

Week 24: the Ministry of Health's two reports disagree (8 here, from its Epidemiology Unit; 19 in its National Dengue Control Unit's weekly update). Shown as printed.

Read from these four weekly reports by Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka:

  • 20–26 Jul 2026 (Vol 53 No 31)
  • 26 Jul–2 Aug 2026 (Vol 53 No 32)
  • 3–9 Aug 2026 (Vol 53 No 33)
  • 10–16 Aug 2026 (Vol 53 No 34)
The 8 reports behind "usual"
  • 20–26 Jul 2024 (Vol 51 No 31)
  • 27 Jul–2 Aug 2024 (Vol 51 No 32)
  • 3–9 Aug 2024 (Vol 51 No 33)
  • 10–16 Aug 2024 (Vol 51 No 34)
  • 19–25 Jul 2025 (Vol 52 No 31)
  • 26 Jul–1 Aug 2025 (Vol 52 No 32)
  • 2–8 Aug 2025 (Vol 52 No 33)
  • 9–15 Aug 2025 (Vol 52 No 34)

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

⅛×usual8×

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for this district alone. Illnesses with fewer than 5 cases a week here are left out: too few to compare.

Dengue in Kalmunai, newest week

31 cases in the week to 13 September, 2.6 times the same week last year.

32cases the week before
1,165so far this year, against 362 by now last year

Source: National Dengue Control Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, Weekly Dengue Update, week 37 of 2026. It counts suspected cases and comes out weeks sooner than the weekly report used elsewhere on this page, so its figures are newer and usually a little higher.

What makes the most people ill here?

Dengue and chickenpox: 83 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Dengue60 in 100
  • Chickenpox23 in 100
  • Tuberculosis5 in 100
  • Leptospirosis4 in 100
  • Dysentery3 in 100
  • 7 others5 in 100

1,634 reports from Kalmunai so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Chickenpox usually peaks here in the next three months.

Usual peak, from 2014 to 2025Next ten weeks

How does Kalmunai compare with the rest of Sri Lanka?

Kalmunai is 6th of the 21 districts with enough dengue to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 4.7×Anuradhapura: 6.0×Badulla: 7.6×Batticaloa: 3.0×Colombo: 4.0×Galle: 5.3×Gampaha: 6.3×Hambantota: 6.7×Jaffna: 2.5×Kalmunai: 6.5×Kalutara: 7.8×Kandy: 3.5×Kegalle: 5.3×Kurunegala: 3.8×Matale: 2.8×Matara: 7.2×Monaragala: 3.8×Nuwara Eliya: 6.3×Polonnaruwa: 5.0×Puttalam: 7.0×Ratnapura: 2.6×Trincomalee: 2.1×Kalmunai

Across Sri Lanka as a whole, dengue is at 4.7× its usual; here it is 6.5×.

Why each district against itself. A large district always has more cases than a small one. Each dot is a district against its own usual, so size drops out.

Where can people get care in Kalmunai?

29 government hospitals and clinics, from 8 primary care units.

  • 8Primary care unitsthe first stop for most illnesses
  • 14Divisional hospitalssmall local hospitals
  • 7District and base hospitalslarger hospitals with specialists

Source: Directorate of Planning, Ministry of Health and Mass Media, Sri Lanka, List of Hospitals and Hospital Bed Data, 2026; map: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, licence ODbL 1.0.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Kalmunai?

Yes, for this week. Kalmunai sent figures in 52 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Kalmunai, most recent last

A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, weekly report. District maps: Survey Department of Sri Lanka, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.