Health officials on Wednesday said they recorded 1,139 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least five persons in the past 24 hours.
“We recorded deaths of five dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am on Wednesday,” a spokesman of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said, adding his office simultaneously recorded 1,139 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
“Out of the 1,139 fresh cases, 179 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 115 in Chattogram division, 223 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 143 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 254 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), 89 in Khulna division, 82 in Mymensingh division, 46 in Rajshahi division, five in Rangpur division, and three in Sylhet division,” a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts in Bangladesh in 2025, the country has witnessed 323 deaths so far, while the disease has afflicted 81,773.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and afflicted 101,214 people in the country.
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