Bangladesh recorded four more dengue deaths and 1,900 new hospital admissions over the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s fatality count this year to 478.
All four patients who died were residents of Dhaka division, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its daily dengue bulletin on Wednesday.
Since January 1, a total of 155,668 people have been hospitalized with dengue across the country, of whom 149,123 have recovered and been discharged, while 6,067 patients remain under treatment at public and private hospitals.
Dhaka division logged the highest number of new admissions in 24 hours with 780 patients, including 345 inside Dhaka North and Dhaka South City Corporation areas and 435 in other districts of the division. Elsewhere, 249 new patients were admitted in Barishal, 242 in Chattogram, 226 in Khulna, 198 in Rajshahi, 109 in Rangpur, 85 in Mymensingh, and 11 in Sylhet.
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