Another dengue patient died in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 68.
During this period, 334 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever as cases keep rising, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The latest death was reported from the Dhaka division raising the death toll in the division to 36.
Meanwhile, the dengue death toll in the Chattogram division remained unchanged at 27 and in the Barishal division at five.
Of the new patients, 241 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 93 outside it.
A total of 2,348 dengue patients, including 1,765 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
This year, the directorate has recorded 20,569 dengue cases and 18,153 recoveries so far.
