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Tuesday | January 27, 2026 | Dhaka

Dengue: 8 more die in 24hrs

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Dengue patients are taking treatment at Suhrawardy Hospital in the capital on Wednesday.

UNB :
Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,570 this year.

During the period, 1,162 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the DGHS.

A total of 4,178 dengue patients, including 1109 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.

So far, the DGHS has recorded 3, 04,698 dengue cases and 2, 98,950 recoveries this year.

September has so far been the deadliest month for the dengue outbreak this year with 396 fatalities and 79,598 cases, according to DGHS data.

Dhaka saw four of the new deaths and 229 new patients.

The number of new patients outside the capital was 933.

On Saturday morning, 4,178 dengue patients were under hospital care across the country, and 3,069 of them were outside Dhaka.

The hospitals in the capital were treating 1,109 patients.

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.