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Eight more people have died of dengue while 1,108 more patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 349 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Tuesday morning.
In addition, 270 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 30 in the Mymensingh Division, 160 in the Chattogram Division, 122 in the Khulna Division, 52 in the Rajshahi Division, 18 in the Rangpur Division, 101 in the Barishal Division, and six in the Sylhet Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 44,764 this year. A total of 223 people died among them, bdnews24.com reports.
As many as 3,680 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,763 in the capital and 1,917 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.