Bangladesh has passed another day without a death from dengue, as the toll from the disease since January remained unchanged at 1,698, reports bndnews24.com.
However, another 152 people were hospitalised due to the disease in a 24-hour count on Tuesday, taking the tally this year to 320,701.
Of the patients newly hospitalised with the disease, 35 cases were in Dhaka, while 117 were outside the capital.
Currently, 983 patients are hospitalised with dengue. Of them, 327 are in Dhaka and 656 are outside the capital.
The dengue outbreak has been significantly worse this year than in previous years.
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.
Dengue: No new death reported
FE Team | Published: December 26, 2023 22:57:19
Dengue: No new death reported
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