Bangladesh records 1,787 hospitalisations from dengue in a day, death toll rises by 7

The death toll this year stands at 1,348 as the caseload reaches 271,175

A nurse checks a dengue patient’s records at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka.

Bangladesh has registered 1,787 new hospitalisations due to dengue in a day, taking the tally this year to 271,175.

The death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose by eight to 1,348 in a 24-hour count to Tuesday morning.

Of the patients newly hospitalised with the disease, 413 cases were in Dhaka, while 1,374 were outside the capital.

On Tuesday morning, 6,527 patients are hospitalised with dengue. Of them, 1,763 are in Dhaka and 4,764 are outside the capital.

After a record 79,598 dengue cases and 396 deaths from the disease in September, as many as 67,769 cases and 359 deaths have been recorded so far in October.

The dengue outbreak has been significantly worse this 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.