Staff Reporter:
At least 10 dengue patients died in 24 hours ended Wednesday morning as the mosquito-carried disease continued its onslaughts in the country raising a nationwide fear.
“We recorded deaths of 10 dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am yesterday,” a spokesman of Di-rectorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 1,069 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
The death toll was the highest with a 24-hour time span since the beginning of the year.
According to the DGHS statistics of the 10 people, five died in areas with purview of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), three in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and one in Barishal and one in Khulna districts.
“Out of the 1,069 fresh cases, 128 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 99 in Chattogram divi-sion, 219 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 152 from DSCC and 251 in DNCC areas, 68 in Khul-na division, 70 in Mymensingh division, 34 in Rajshahi division, 43 in Rangpur division and five in Sylhet division, a DGHS statement, meanwhile, said.
Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 302 deaths while the disease inflicted 74,992.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
