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. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said as many as 430 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Tuesday morning, bdnews24.com reports. As many as 3,980 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000.
