Staff Correspondent

Five people have died of dengue fever and another 534 patients with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease have been hospitalised across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.

The Directorate General of Health Services said among the new dengue patients hospitalised until Tuesday morning, 205 were in Dhaka, 37 in Barishal, 113 in Chattogram, 59 in Khulna, 17 in Mymensingh, 18 in Rajshahi, and one in Rangpur.

The number of hospitalised dengue patients across the country has reached 16,819 this year. A total of 102 people died among them.

Until Tuesday morning, a total of 1,664 dengue patients have been receiving treatment at hospitals. They include 938 in the capital and 726 outside Dhaka.

The health directorate has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000.

Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.