Sri Lanka dengue: Authorities tackle spike in cases

Sri Lanka has recorded a sharp increase in people infected with dengue, a viral disease spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, across the country.

Now Sri Lanka’s health authorities are borrowing a method they say has been successful in Australia – one that uses the same mosquitoes, to combat its spread.

Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo, Sri Lanka.