Three more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 99.
During this period, 900 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever as cases keep rising, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the new patients, 528 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 372 outside it.
A total of 3,227 dengue patients, including 2,148 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
The Directorate has recorded 26,938 dengue cases and 23,612 recoveries so far this year.
