The National Environment Agency (NEA) has been releasing Wolbachia-infected sterile male Aedes mosquitoes in high-outbreak areas like Tampines so that female mosquitoes they breed with will lay eggs that do not hatch.
Mr Chew Ming Fai, director-general of public health at the NEA, had said earlier this year that the project has "reduced the urban Aedes aegypti population by over 90 per cent in the Yishun and Tampines study sites".
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