Two people have died of dengue while 854 more patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across the country in the past 24 hours.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 365 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Wednesday morning.
In addition, 55 were hospitalised in the Barishal Division, 98 in the Chattogram Division, 200 in the Dhaka Division, 64 in the Khulna Division, 35 in the Mymensingh Division, 27 in the Rajshahi Division, and 10 in the Rangpur Division.
With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 26,555 this year. A total of 138 people died among them.
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.
