News Desk :
Seven more people have died of dengue infection while 596 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 96,228 this year. A total of 529 people died among them, reports bdnews24.com
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 228 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Sunday morning.
In addition, 136 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 20 in the Mymensingh Division, 67 in the Chattogram Division, 72 in the Khulna Division, 32 in the Rajshahi Division, eight in the Rangpur Division, 31 in the Barishal Division, and two in the Sylhet Division.
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.
