Another dies of dengue fever in 24 hrs

Special Correspondent Dhaka
Published: 24 October 2021, 06:37 PM
Another dies of dengue fever in 24 hrs

Another person died of dengue and 179 with the fever newly got admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning.

With this, dengue deaths stood at 87 this year, the Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release today.

As many as 840 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different hospitals.

Among them, 680 are receiving treatment in Dhaka while the rest 160 are outside the capital.

As of today since January 1 this year, a total of 22,498 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country.

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