Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina was accorded a warm welcome upon her arrival at the Government House, the Thai premier's office
A total of 1,929 patients afflicted with the mosquito-borne disease were admitted to hospitals around the country in the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday, according to Directorate General of Health Services or DGHS data.
Hospitals in Dhaka, the epicentre of the disease, have registered 811 new dengue patients in the last 24 hours, up from 755 the previous.
Dengue cases outside Dhaka stands at 1,118 over the same period from 1,125 the previous day.
"The number of new patients has risen by 49 on the third day of Eid compared with the day prior. But the number outside Dhaka has come down some what today," Ayesha Akhter, assistant director of DGHS, told bdnews24.com.