Two more people died of dengue and 189 with the fever newly got admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning.
With this, dengue deaths stood at 86 this year, the Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Saturday.
As many as 838 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different hospitals.
Among them, 669 are receiving treatment in Dhaka while the rest 169 are outside the capital.
As of today since January 1 this year, t total of 22,319 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country.
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