Bangladesh logs 59 dengue cases, no deaths

Hospitals in Bangladesh have recorded 59 new cases of dengue fever in a day, taking the tally of infections this year to 544 after the worst outbreak in the country’s history in 2023.

The death toll from the mosquito-borne virus remained unchanged at four in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services said.

In 2023, Bangladesh recorded 321,179 hospitalisations and 1,705 deaths from the viral disease, reports bdnews24.com.

In the latest daily count, hospitals in Dhaka admitted 18 more patients, while the other districts recorded 41 new cases.

Of the 366 dengue patients undergoing treatment in hospitals across the country in the morning, 185 were in Dhaka and 181 outside the capital.

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.