Five more people have died of dengue while 981 more patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across the country.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 392 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Tuesday morning.
In addition, 143 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 17 in the Mymensingh Division, 160 in the Chattogram Division, 95 in the Khulna Division, 47 in the Rajshahi Division, 30 in the Rangpur Division, 93 in the Barishal Division, and four in the Sylhet Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 38,789 this year. A total of 193 people died among them.
As many as 3,384 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,707 in the capital and 1,677 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.
