Published : 28 Oct 2024, 12:54 AM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 12:01 PM
Six more people have died of dengue while 1,248 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 461 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Sunday morning.
In addition, 244 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 51 in the Mymensingh Division, 207 in the Chattogram Division, 107 in the Khulna Division, 40 in the Rajshahi Division, 23 in the Rangpur Division, 111 in the Barishal Division, and four in the Sylhet Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 56,911 this year. A total of 277 people died among them.
As many as 3,984 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,939 in the capital and 2,045 outside Dhaka.
The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000.
Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.
