UNB :
Dengue claimed two more lives in Dhaka city while 219 new patients were hospitalized across the country in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
With this dengue fever fatality in Dhaka city reached 60 this year, while two each died in Chattogram and Khulna divisions and one in Rajshahi, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
With the latest figure, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 65 this year.
Among the new patients, 167 were undergoing hospital treatment in Dhaka while the remaining 52 cases were reported from outside the division, according to DGHS. Some 954 patients diagnosed with dengue fever are receiving treatment in the country as of Monday morning.
Of them, 736 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 218 were listed outside Dhaka. Some 17,790 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with dengue since January.
So far, 16,771 dengue patients have left hospitals after recovery, said the DGHS.
The number of dengue patients hospitalized in a single day was the highest with 343 patients on September 7.
In August the country recorded the highest number of 7,698 dengue cases of the current year.
In July, 2,286 people were diagnosed with dengue and 12 died while in June 272 cases were recorded with no deaths.
Meanwhile, two more people died of dengue in 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 65 from the Aedes mosquito-borne viral disease in Bangladesh since January. In the past 24-hour cycle, 219 more dengue patients were hospitalized. As a result, the total number of hospitalised patients increased to 17,790 ones since January, according to a press release issued by the Health Emergency Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services on Tuesday.
Of the hospitalised patients in the past 24 hours, 167 were hospitalised in Dhaka and 52 in other places across the country. Two deceased were aged between 31 years and 40 years, according to the DGHS release.
Sixty of the 65 people died since January were in Dhaka, two each in Chattogram and Khulna divisions and one in Rajshahi division.
Twelve of them died in July, 34 died in August and 19 died in September, according to the release. In the 28 days in September, 7,434 patients were hospitalised across the country. The number was 7,698 in August.
Earlier, 2,286 hospitalised cases were recorded in July and the total figure in January-June was 372.
On Tuesday, 954 dengue patients, including 736 in 46 government and private hospitals in the capital, were undergoing treatment in health facilities across the country.
According to the release, 16,771 patients have recovered from the disease since January.
