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Sixty-nine more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Thursday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Among them, 52 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while the remaining 17 in other places, it said.
As many as 264 dengue patients, including 203 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
On Tuesday, this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to five with two more deaths reported from Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. This year, the DGHS has recorded 1,979 dengue cases and 1,710 recoveries so far.
Although dengue – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries – was first reported in Bangladesh in 1964, the first epidemic occurred in 2000, claiming 93 lives that year. It has since become endemic in the country, with outbreaks recorded every year since.
