Six more die of dengue, 2010 admitted to hospitals

The Directorate General of Health Services has reported that six people died of dengue in the last 24 hours across the country. During this period 2,010 new patients were admitted to hospitals.

With this the number of dengue deaths this year has risen to 439. And the number of patients admitted to hospitals after being infected with dengue this year has stood at 1,40,909.

The Directorate General of Health Services said on Tuesday (November 3) that among the newly admitted patients in the last 24 hours there were 943 from Dhaka Division, 219 from Barishal, 245 from Chattogram, 235 from Khulna, 60 from Mymensingh, 219 from Rajshahi, 65 from Rangpur and 24 from Sylhet Division.

The Directorate General of Health Services has been preserving information on hospital admissions and deaths from dengue since 2000. According to the directorate’s information, the highest number of 3,21,179 people were admitted to hospitals after being infected with dengue in the country in 2023. The highest number of 1,705 people also died of this disease in the same year.

More than four hundred people died of dengue last year. The number of detected patients that year was more than 1,02,000.