Five more people have died of dengue while 562 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh over the past 24 hours.
The number of patients hospitalised with the disease this year has risen to 95,632. The total number of deaths from the illness now stands at 522.
The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 268 new patients were hospitalised in the Dhaka metropolitan area until Saturday.
In addition, 55 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 18 in the Mymensingh Division, 78 in the Chattogram Division, 47 in the Khulna Division, 37 in the Rajshahi Division, two in the Rangpur Division, 53 in the Barishal Division, and four in the Sylhet Division.
—bdnews24.com
