Dengue: 5 more die -_

Five more people have died of dengue infection while 570 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Thursday morning, reports bdnews24.com.

With the new counts, the number of people in hospitals with the fever has reached 94,884 this year. A total of 514 people died among them.

The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 208 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Thursday morning.

In addition, 127 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 17 in the Mymensingh Division, 47 in the Chattogram Division, 64 in the Khulna Division, 50 in the Rajshahi Division, one in the Rangpur Division, 54 in the Barishal Division, and two in the Sylhet Division.

As many as 2,369 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 958 in the capital and 1,411 outside Dhaka.

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. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.