So far the Ministry has revealed the number of cases affected by the mosquito-borne disease increased from 1,700 to nearly 2,500 since October and there have been five deaths so far.
But it is uncertain whether these deaths included people who travelled to Samoa from New Zealand but then died after contracting dengue fever and were buried back in Aotearoa.
Our correspondent Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia said that health officials seemed very reluctant to release more details, especially to media.
