Brazil will allocate 640 million U.S. dollars as part of a contingency plan to combat dengue, Brazil's official news agency reported Tuesday.

The contingency plan was announced Tuesday by Health Minister Alexandre Padilla after a meeting of President Dilma Rousseff and 12 representatives of ministries.

The Ministry of Health also released Tuesday a study indicating that 16 out of 27 Brazilian states face high risk of dengue epidemic in the coming months.

The contingency plan will focus on these 16 states, where partnerships will be established with local officials and entrepreneurs to combat the disease.

In 2010, Brazil recorded a million cases of dengue in the country, which caused 550 deaths. A total of 15,500 were considered serious cases.

"We want to avoid the situation that occurred last year and prevent deaths and cases of the disease," said Padilla.