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The number of deaths from the dengue outbreak in the country keeps rising this year. Four more people died of the disease in the past 24 hours, and 1,181 were admitted to hospital in the same period. With this, the number of dengue deaths this year has stood at 335.
This information was given in an updated dengue bulletin of the Directorate General of Health Services on Friday. The bulletin presented the picture of the 24 hours from 8:00am on Thursday to 8:00am on Friday.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, two people died of dengue in January this year and two more died in February. After that, one person died in May, 13 in June, 36 in July, 43 in August and 148 in September. So far 90 people have died in October. With this, a total of 335 people have died of dengue this year.
Of the 1,181 people admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours, 66 were admitted to hospitals in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) area and 125 to hospitals in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area. Another 219 were admitted to various hospitals outside the two city corporation areas of Dhaka.
Among the divisions outside Dhaka, the highest number of dengue patients were admitted to hospital in Chattogram, at 242. Besides, 140 were admitted in Khulna, 127 in Barishal, 99 in Rajshahi, 92 in Mymensingh and 71 in Rangpur.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, 1,08,440 people have been admitted to hospital after contracting dengue from 1 January this year until now, of whom 1,02,210 have recovered and been discharged from hospital.
