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The number of dengue deaths this year now stands at 368. The toll reached this figure after four more people died of the Aedes mosquito-borne disease in the past 24 hours; in the same period 1,512 people were newly admitted to hospital. Dengue deaths in the country show no sign of stopping.
This information is in the dengue update released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today (Thursday). The figures in the release cover the 24 hours from 8am yesterday (Wednesday) to 8am today.
DGHS data show that two of the four people who died in these 24 hours were being treated in hospitals in Mymensingh. Of the other two, one had been admitted to a hospital in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area and the other in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) area.
Of the newly admitted patients, 111 are in hospitals in the DSCC area and 146 in the DNCC area. A further 1,255 were admitted to various hospitals outside Dhaka’s two city corporations.
By division, the most patients outside Dhaka were admitted in Chattogram — 294. It was followed by 231 in Barishal, 206 in Khulna, 162 in Rajshahi, 60 in Mymensingh, 44 in Rangpur and eight in Sylhet.
According to the DGHS’s monthly figures, two people died of dengue each in January and February this year, and one in May. Thirteen died in June, 36 in July, 43 in August and 148 in September. So far in October, 123 have died.
From 1 January to today, 118,502 people have been admitted to hospital with dengue in the country. Of them, 112,111 have recovered and been discharged.
Of those who died of dengue this year, 52.9 per cent were women and 47.1 per cent men. Yet among hospitalised patients, women make up 37.9 per cent and men 62.1 per cent.
By the numbers
A bdnews24.com report of 5 October, citing a DGHS release, said that up to then 271 people had died of dengue this year and 88,360 had been admitted to hospital.
The same report said more than 400 people had died of dengue the previous year.
Background source: bdnews24.com, 5 October 2026
