Dhaka registered 478 new dengue patients while the number was 1,195 outside the capital. Dhaka, however, saw eight new deaths from the disease against five in the rest of the country. Of the 8,248 dengue patients in hospitals across the country in the morning, 2,538 were in Dhaka. The figure was 5,710 in other districts. 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.

Source: bd News24 October 14, 2023 01:23 UTC