5 more die of dengue

UNB :
Five more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,615 this year.

During the period, 968 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the DGHS.

A total of 3,587 dengue patients, including 1974 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.

So far, the DGHS has recorded 3,11,014 dengue cases and 3,05,812 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 three of the new deaths and 193 new patients. The number of new patients outside the capital was 775.

On Wednesday morning, 3,587 dengue patients were under hospital care across the country, and 2,613 of them were outside Dhaka. The hospitals in the capital were treating 974 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.