Staff Reporter:
Health officials yesterday said they recorded the death of four people from Dengue and 942 fresh cases in the past 24 hours till Monday morning.
“During the period, (of the 942) 139 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 114 in Chattogram division, 203 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 99 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 211 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 55 in Khulna division, 33 in Mymensingh division, 63 in Rajshahi division, 23 in Rangpur division and two in Sylhet division, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts, Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 249 deaths while the dis-ease inflicted 60,791.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
