Health officials on Tuesday said that they recorded 421 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least three persons in the past 24 hours.
“We recorded deaths of three dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today,” a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 421 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
According to the DGHS statistics, one died in areas with the purview of the Barishal division and two in the Dhaka South City Corporation.
“Out of the 421 fresh cases, 64 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 63 in Chattogram division, 73 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 72 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 75 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), 30 in Khulna division, 31 in Mymensingh division, 12 in Rajshahi division and one in Rangpur division,” a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts in Bangladesh in 2025 witnessed so far 401 deaths while the disease has afflicted 98,705.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
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