Seven more people have died of dengue infection while 1,211 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 74,800 this year. A total of 367 people died among them.The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 430 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Tuesday morning.In addition, 272 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 43 in the Mymensingh Division, 139 in the Chattogram Division, 130 in the Khulna Division, 67 in the Rajshahi Division, 18 in the Rangpur Division, 108 in the Barishal Division, and four in the Sylhet Division.As many as 3,980 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,838 in the capital and 2,142 outside Dhaka.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. —bdnews24.com
