Dengue: Bangladesh records no deaths, but 85 cases in first daily count of 2024

Of the patients newly hospitalised with the disease, 26 cases were in Dhaka, while 59 were outside the capital

A nurse attends to a dengue patient at Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Bangladesh has registered no deaths but 85 new cases of dengue fever in the first daily count of 2024 after record 321,179 hospitalisations and 1,705 deaths in 2023 amid the worst outbreak of the disease.

However, 85 people were hospitalised due to the disease in a 24-hour count on Monday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

The dengue outbreak has been significantly worse last year than in previous years.

Experts have blamed a prolonged monsoon and rising temperature, along with a lack of effective measures to kill the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the known carrier of the virus, for the outbreak.