News Desk :
Eighteen more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Saturday morning, health authorities said, reports UNB.
Fatalities from dengue remained unchanged at 104 as no new death was reported during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
It said 94 people died in Dhaka division alone, four in Mymensingh, two each in Chattogram, and Khulna and one each in Rajshahi and Barishal divisions.
Sixteen patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dhaka while the remaining two cases have been reported from outside the division.
Some 107 patients who were diagnosed with dengue are receiving treatment in the country as of Saturday.
Of them, 67 are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 40 were listed outside Dhaka.
Since January, some 28,348 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with Dengue in the country. So far, 28,137 dengue patients have left hospitals after recovery, said the DGHS.
bdnews24.com adds: Bangladesh has registered one new death from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 28,056 The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,582,985 as 275 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Saturday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 300 infections.
Nationwide, another 224 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,547,180.
As many as 13,699 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 2.01 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.75 percent and the mortality rate at 1.77 percent.
Globally, over 278.99 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.39 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
