"Instead of being panicked, it will be wiser to be aware, and careful about the dengue menace," he said on Sunday. The mayor made the comment just a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) termed the outbreak as alarming, while dengue-affected patients were flooding city hospitals. He was talking to reporters after launching a 15-day campaign to inspect the dengue situation in the DSCC areas. On July 20, Sayeed Khokon also claimed that there was no reason for the city dwellers to panic over the dengue outbreak. Of them, some 1,474 dengue patients are still hospitalised.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 21, 2019 13:18 UTC