Five die, 1,337 hospitalised with dengue fever in Bangladesh

The number of people in hospital with the mosquito-borne disease reaches 72,393

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Five more people have died of dengue infection while 1,337 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.

With the new counts, the number of people in hospitals with the fever has reached 72,393 this year. A total of 355 people died among them.

The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 443 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Sunday morning.

In addition, 337 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 48 in the Mymensingh Division, 162 in the Chattogram Division, 139 in the Khulna Division, 69 in the Rajshahi Division, 33 in the Rangpur Division, 101 in the Barishal Division, and five in the Sylhet Division.

As many as 4,396 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,922 in the capital and 2,474 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.