No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours till 8am on Friday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB. According to the daily update from DGHS, six patients are being treated at hospitals in the capital and another outside Dhaka.
Since the beginning of this year, 289 dengue cases were reported. Of them, 283 had been discharged from hospitals. Bangladesh experienced a massive dengue outbreak last year when 101,354 people were hospitalised. Of them, 101,037 made full recovery. According to official figures, the mosquito-borne disease killed 179 people in 2019.
