Three people have died of dengue, while 1,033 more patients were hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across the country in the past 24 hours. The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 441 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Wednesday morning. With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 39,822 this year. 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.

Source: bd News24 October 09, 2024 13:16 UTC