Dengue death toll reaches 187 7,500 cases in 9 days

News Desk :
With five more deaths reported in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, this year’s fatalities from Dengue climbed to 187.
This year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182 on Tuesday, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh, reports UNB.
During the 24-hr period, 796 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the latest deaths, three were reported from Dhaka and one each from Chattogram and Khulna divisions.
The new figures raised the death toll in Dhaka division to 117, in Chattogram division to 45 and in Khulna to 10.
Of the new patients, 459 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 337 outside it, according to the DGHS.
A total of 3,144 dengue patients, including 1,915 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
The directorate has recorded 45,598 dengue cases and 42,267 recoveries so far this year.
Earlier the country recorded the highest 179 deaths from Dengue in a year in 2019.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s hospitalised dengue cases increased by 796 on Wednesday, taking the tally in the first nine days of November to 7,574, with 46 deaths reported from different hospitals around the country, reports bdnews24.com.
As many as 45,598 dengue patients, including 7,574 cases in November, were admitted to hospitals this year which is the second-highest for the country after 101,354 hospitalisations in 2019. Bangladesh recorded 28,429 hospitalisations last year.
However, 21,932 people were hospitalised with the disease in October alone which saw 86 deaths.
Currently, 3,144 dengue patients are being treated in hospitals — 1,915 of them in Dhaka.
Dengue cases usually rise in Bangladesh when mosquito attack increases during monsoon as the Aedes aegypti mosquito breeds in clean stagnant water. This year, however, dengue cases surged in the September-October period.