90 hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs

Some 90 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 776 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different government and private hospitals.

Of them, 652 are being treated at the facilities of Dhaka while 124 are in other divisions, a Directorate General of Health Services press release said today.  

As per the release, a total of 6,447 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country since January 1 this year. 

To date, 22 people died of dengue during the period while 5,648 out of the hospitalized patients recovered.