Three dengue patients died in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am on Saturday while 1,674 were hospitalised after being infected with the mosquito-borne disease during the same period.
The latest fatalities have raised the country’s dengue death toll to 458 this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the newly-hospitalized dengue patients, 714 were in Dhaka Division, 50 in Mymensingh Division, 311 in Chattogram Division, 190 in Khulna Division, 115 in Rajshahi Division, 60 in Rangpur Division, 213 in Barishal Division and 21 in Sylhet Division.
According to the report, a total of 147,580 dengue patients have, so far, been hospitalised across the country this year. So far, 141,296 dengue patients have recovered and returned home after receiving treatment from the hospitals.
A total of 102,861 people were infected with dengue, and 413 people died from the mosquito-borne disease last year.
