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২৬ আগস্ট, ২০২৩ ১২:০০ পূর্বাহ্ণ
Dengue claims 14 more lives, 1,594 new patients hospitalised in a day
Dengue
claims 14 more lives, 1,594 new patients hospitalised in a day
The death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose by 14 to 528
in the 24 hours to Friday morning, according to the Directorate General of
Health Services.
The number of new patients hospitalised in Dhaka
was 703 and it was 891 outside the capital.
The
city saw 11 deaths and the toll was three in other districts.
On Friday morning, 7,934 patients were under
hospital care across the country, and 4,179 of them were outside Dhaka while
3,755 were in the capital.
A government-funded survey of Dhaka city has
uncovered an alarming surge of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, known carriers of the
dengue virus, fuelling the worst spread of the disease over the past five
years.
Most of the deaths caused by dengue occurred due
to haemorrhagic fever and shock syndrome, which health experts associated with
some new variants of the deadly virus, previously undetected in Bangladesh.