Dengue fever: 16 hospitalised in 24hrs across country
At least 16 dengue patients were hospitalised during the last 24 hours till this morning across the country, 10 of which were outside Dhaka.
With this, the total number of dengue cases this year rose to 751, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The total number of deaths from dengue this year is nine so far.
Some 39 dengue patients are still undergoing treatment of which 21 are outside Dhaka.
A total of 703 dengue patients were released from hospitals of which 371 cases were from outside Dhaka.
Total number of deaths in dengue was 281 last year while the total number of cases was 62,382, of which 23,162 were outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Experts urged authorities concerned to conduct extensive drives in order to identify clusters of Aedes mosquitoes since the beginning of the lean period.
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