Health officials on Tuesday said they recorded 120 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least one person in the past 24 hours.
"We recorded the death of one dengue patient in 24 hours ending at 8am today," a spokesman of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said, adding his office simultaneously recorded 120 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
"Out of the 120 fresh cases, 12 were hospitalized in Barisal division, 59 in Chittagong division, 6 in Dhaka division excluding capital, 18 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 10 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 3 in Khulna division, 9 in Mymensingh division, 1 in Rajshahi division and 2 in Sylhet division," a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts Bangladesh this year, the country has witnessed 413 deaths, while the disease has afflicted 102,793.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and afflicted 101,214 people in the country.
