Health officials on Sunday said they recorded 194 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least two persons in the past 24 hours.
"We recorded deaths of two dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today," a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said, adding his office simultaneously recorded 194 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
"Out of the 194 fresh cases, 32 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 45 in Chattogram division, 26 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 22 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), 28 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), 23 in Khulna division, five in Mymensingh division, 12 in Rajshahi division and one in Rangpur division," a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts in Bangladesh this year, the country has witnessed 412 deaths, while the disease has afflicted 101,791.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and afflicted 101,214 people in the country.
