Some 240 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Friday morning.
With this, a total of 1,916 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different government and private hospitals.
Of them, 1,448 are being treated at the facilities of Dhaka while 468 are in other divisions, a Directorate General of Health Services press release said today.
As per the release, a total of 16,092 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country since January 1 this year.
To date, 55 people died of dengue during the period while 14,120 out of the hospitalized patients recovered.