16 more die, total up to 634

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) registered 16 more deaths across the country, including eight from Dhaka, due to the mosquito-borne dengue fever in 24 hours till 8:00 am on Sunday.
With the new deaths, the total number of casualties reached 634, including 464 from Dhaka.
Meanwhile, 2,608 new cases of hospitalisation were also reported during the same period, including 892 from Dhaka, according to the DGHS daily update.
Dengue appears to coincide with the rainy season from May to September along with higher temperature in Bangladesh, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Bangladesh's climate conditions are becoming more favourable for transmission of dengue and other vector-borne diseases, including malaria and chikungunya, due to excessive rainfall, water-logging, flooding, rise in temperature and unusual shift in its traditional seasons, the WHO said in a recent report.
The worsening dengue situation here showed no sign of improvement, and the health authorities reported a growing number of new cases outside Dhaka. Of these new cases of hospitalisation, 1,716 were reported from outside Dhaka.
The total dengue cases rose to 130,302. Of the total cases, 60,484 were from Dhaka.
A total of 8,845 people were being treated in hospitals across the country. Of them, 3,928 were from Dhaka.
Of the total admitted, 120,823 patients, including 56,092 from Dhaka, made recovery and returned home - recording 93 per cent recovery rate, added the DGHS.
Last year, 281 people died of dengue, the second highest in the country's history.

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