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Five more people have died of dengue infection while 1,194 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.
With the new counts, the number of people in hospitals with the fever has reached 73,587 this year. A total of 360 people died among them.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 441 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Monday morning.
In addition, 246 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 45 in the Mymensingh Division, 145 in the Chattogram Division, 142 in the Khulna Division, 68 in the Rajshahi Division, 16 in the Rangpur Division, 88 in the Barishal Division, and three in the Sylhet Division.
As many as 4,395 patients are currently undergoing treatment for dengue in hospitals across the country. They include 1,939 in the capital and 2,456 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.