Four more people died of dengue in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday, and 1,512 were admitted to hospital with the disease in the same period. That brings the toll for the first 22 days of October to 123 deaths and 38,882 hospital admissions.
The figures were released on Thursday in a dengue press release from the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
According to the release, between 8am on Wednesday and 8am on Thursday, 231 people were admitted in Barishal division, 294 in Chattogram, 250 in Dhaka division outside the city corporations, 111 in Dhaka North City Corporation, 146 in Dhaka South City Corporation, 206 in Khulna, 60 in Mymensingh, 162 in Rajshahi, 44 in Rangpur and 8 in Sylhet. In the same period, 1,455 patients were discharged after recovering.
The DGHS said the total number of dengue cases since January this year has risen to 118,502, and 368 people have died of the disease so far this year. Of the deaths, 2 were in January, 2 in February, 1 in May, 13 in June, 36 in July, 43 in August and 148 in September. Of all the cases recorded so far, 62.1 percent are men and 37.9 percent women.
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