Bangladesh has registered 17 new hospitalisations with dengue infection but no new deaths from the disease in a 24-hour tally to Thursday morning. Of the patients newly hospitalised, four cases were in Dhaka, while 13 were outside the capital. Currently, 97 patients are hospitalised with dengue. Of them, 40 are in Dhaka and 57 are outside the capital. The dengue outbreak in 2023 was the worst on record in Bangladesh, with 321,179 patients contracting the disease and 1,705 dying from it.

Source: bd News24 February 01, 2024 12:38 UTC