A child undergoes treatment for dengue at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in the city on Sunday. The intensity of the deadly tropical disease keeps rising, with nine deaths recorded on that day, the highest single-day toll this year. — FE Photo Bangladesh has recorded nine more deaths from dengue fever over the past 24 hours as daily fatalities rose to a year high, reports bdnews24.com.
Another 740 people were hospitalised with the Aedes-mosquito borne disease in the last 24 hours, which is also a yearly high, the health directorate reported on Sunday.
This brings the total number of deaths due to the disease to 179 this year, and the total number of hospitalisations this year to 40,461.
According to the health directorate's bulletin, the tally of deaths for Sunday includes three fatalities from Saturday, totalling 12 deaths. Therefore, nine deaths have occurred in the last 24 hours.
Earlier, six people died of the mosquito-borne illness on Sept 11.
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