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DHAKA: Six more dengue patients died in the 24 hours until 8:00am today, while 1,970 others were hospitalised after contracting the mosquito-borne disease during the same period.
The latest fatalities have raised the country’s dengue death toll to 433 this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the newly hospitalised patients, 900 were in Dhaka Division, 95 in Mymensingh, 252 in Chattogram, 294 in Khulna, 153 in Rajshahi, 71 in Rangpur, 183 in Barishal and 22 in Sylhet.
According to the DGHS report, a total of 138,899 dengue patients have been hospitalised across the country so far this year.
Of them, 132,449 have recovered and returned home after receiving treatment at hospitals.
Last year, 102,861 people were infected with dengue and 413 died from the mosquito-borne disease.