Is anything worse than usual in Kegalle right now?

Yes. Dengue is far above usual: 5.3× its usual for these weeks.

Far above usual · 5.3×

151 dengue cases a week, against a usual 28.

0100200300usual range2026JanAprJulOctWeek 14 of 2026: 16, as printedWeek 24 of 2026: 25, as printed

Week 14: the Ministry of Health's two reports disagree (16 here, from its Epidemiology Unit; 40 in its National Dengue Control Unit's weekly update). Shown as printed.

Week 24: the Ministry of Health's two reports disagree (25 here, from its Epidemiology Unit; 106 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.

Where is dengue worst in Kegalle right now?

69 cases in the week to 13 September, 5.8 times the same week last year.

These 3 local health areas were flagged as high-risk that week, most cases first.

  • Mawanella12up from 8 the week before
  • Warakapola12up from 9 the week before
  • Ruwanwella11up from 6 the week before
58cases the week before
2,901so far this year, against 1,094 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: 67 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Dengue67 in 100
  • Chickenpox14 in 100
  • Leptospirosis8 in 100
  • Tuberculosis6 in 100
  • Meningitis2 in 100
  • 8 others3 in 100

3,800 reports from Kegalle so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Chickenpox and tuberculosis usually peak here in the next three months.

Usual peak, from 2014 to 2025Next ten weeks

How does Kegalle compare with the rest of Sri Lanka?

Kegalle is 11th 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×Kegalle

Across Sri Lanka as a whole, dengue is at 4.7× its usual; here it is 5.3×.

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 Kegalle?

51 government hospitals and clinics, from 28 primary care units.

  • 28Primary care unitsthe first stop for most illnesses
  • 19Divisional hospitalssmall local hospitals
  • 4District and base hospitalslarger hospitals with specialists

Where volunteers on OpenStreetMap have mapped hospitals and clinics. Their map shows where they have been, not everything that exists.

HospitalClinic or doctor

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Teaching Hospital Kegalle
  • base hospital
  • Base Hospital Mawanella
  • Karawanella Base Hospital
  • District Hospital Undugoda
  • District Hospital Warakapola

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.

How far is care from here?

1 in 3 people live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Kegalle. Half of people are within 48 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk70%
  • One to two hours29%
  • More than two hours1%

And to a larger hospital?

7 kmhalf of people live closer than this to a base, general or teaching hospital
23%live more than 10 km away, in a straight line; roads are longer

Sources: walking times, Weiss and others, Nature Medicine 2020 (Malaria Atlas Project), a model at walking pace from facilities mapped in 2019; where people live, WorldPop 2020; larger hospitals, the Ministry of Health's list of its hospitals (2026), with locations from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Kegalle?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Kegalle, 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.