Dhaka – The death toll from the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh rose to 421 with six more people died in the last 24 hours ended on Monday morning, officials said.
The government’s Directorate General of Health Services in its latest release said that six people died rising the death toll this year to 421, and some 1,083 others were hospitalized with dengue infections in different hospitals.
Two deaths were reported from south-eastern Chittagong division while one each from Dhaka division, Dhaka South City Corporation, North City Corporation and Mymensingh district.
According to the government’s health data, a total of 421 people died of dengue outbreak this year. The caseload this year so far reported to 81,068.
Some 4,008 patients are undergoing treatment while some 76,639 patients have recovered.
Bangladesh reported more than 1,000 dengue-related fatalities in 2023 as a result of, as experts say, massive urbanisation, climate change and inadequate prevention and control of the mosquito-borne disease in the South Asian country.
The death toll had dramatically risen from the year 2022, when 281 deaths from dengue set what was then a record.
Dengue is a viral infection with flu-like symptoms that spreads from Aedes mosquitoes to people. It is common in tropical and subtropical climates, but the disease intensifies in Bangladesh during the monsoon between June and September when the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the carrier of the virus, thrives in stagnant water.
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