Six die, 1,370 hospitalised with dengue fever in Bangladesh

The number of hospitalised patients with the mosquito-borne disease reaches 67,138

Six more people have died of dengue while 1,370 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 hospitalised dengue patients has reached 67,138 this year. A total of 326 people died among them.

The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 525 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Tuesday morning.

In addition, 350 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 39 in the Mymensingh Division, 144 in the Chattogram Division, 135 in the Khulna Division, 28 in the Rajshahi Division, 27 in the Rangpur Division, and 122 in the Barishal Division.

As many as 4,202 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,897 in the capital and 2,305 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.