Although Bangladesh saw no deaths from dengue in the past 24 hours till early Friday, 221 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne fever.
Among the new patients, 212 were admitted to government and private hospitals in Dhaka alone.
According to the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), 7,472 patients have been diagnosed with dengue this year, including at least 31 deaths.
July and August accounted for all the deaths; and of the deceased, 27 were from Dhaka division, two from Chattogram, one each from Khulna and Rajshahi.
The new infection tally indicates the fast-rising trend of the Aedes-borne disease in Dhaka. The country has been seeing over 200 dengue cases a day for the last 19 days since August 1.
Around 1,190 patients diagnosed with dengue fever are now receiving treatment and almost all the dengue cases have been found in the capital so far. Of them, 1,094 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka.
So far, 6, 251 dengue patients have been released from hospitals, according to the DGHS.
A sharp spike in dengue cases deals a double blow to Bangladesh as the country’s healthcare system has already been battered by a worsening Covid crisis, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.
On Friday, 145 Covid-19 related deaths were reported across the country in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 25,023.
During the same period, 5,993 new cases were reported, taking the total caseload to 14,53,203.
Source: United News of Bangladesh