Staff Reporter:
Five dengue patients dead in 24 hours ending at 8 am yesterday and 636 were feshly attacked till Sunday morning; a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simulta-neously recorded 636 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
According to the DGHS statistics, one died in areas with purview of Chattogram division, three in Dha-ka South City Corporation and one in Khulna division.
“Out of the 636 fresh cases, 75 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 95 in Chattogram division, 116 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 74 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 147 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 56 in Khulna division, 45 in Mymensingh division, 17 in Rajshahi division, two in Rangpur division and nine 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 382 deaths while the dis-ease inflicted 94,402.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
