Staff Reporter:
At least six Dengue patients were dead and 788 fresh cases of dengue reported in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
“We recorded deaths of six dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am yesterday,” a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 788 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
According to the DGHS statistics, two died in areas with purview of Dhaka North City Corpora-tion, one in Dhaka South City Corporation (DNCC) and three in Rajshahi division.
“Out of the 788 fresh cases, 87 patients were hospitalized in Barishal division, 108 in Chattogram division, 130 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 86 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 166 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 66 in Khulna division, 54 in My-mensingh division, 88 in Rajshahi division and three 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 349 deaths while the disease inflicted 87,712.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
