Eight die, record 1,389 hospitalised with dengue fever in Bangladesh

The number of people in hospital with the mosquito-borne disease nears 80,000

Eight more people have died of dengue infection while 1,389 new patients - the highest for a single day - 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 79,984 this year. A total of 415 people died among them.

The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 376 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Sunday morning.

In addition, 391 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 44 in the Mymensingh Division, 172 in the Chattogram Division, 159 in the Khulna Division, 96 in the Rajshahi Division, 19 in the Rangpur Division, 123 in the Barishal Division, and nine in the Sylhet Division.

As many as 4,035 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,669 in the capital and 2,366 outside Dhaka.

The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and fatalities 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.