Nine more people died of dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 210 this year.
During the period, 915 more patients were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services press release issued on Saturday.
Death of nine people in a single day is the highest this year while eight people died on October 2 and September 29 this year.
Including the latest hospitalisation, the total number reached 41,810 since January this year.
Of the deceased three are male and six female. Five of them died in the Dhaka South City Corporation area, two in the Barishal City Corporation area and one each in Chattogram and Dhaka North City Corporation area.
According to the DGHS data, both the cases of deaths and hospitalisation are increasing.
In 2023, Bangladesh recorded 1,122 deaths due to dengue and 231,204 hospitalisation at the same time duration.
This year, of the deaths, 14 died in January, three in February, five in March, two in April, two in May, eight in June, 12 in July, 27 in August, 80 in September and 47 in the first 12 days of October.
Of the hospitalisation this year, 1,055 were reported in January, 339 in February, 311 in March, 504 in April, 644 in May, 798 in June, 2,669 in July, 6,521 in August, 18,097 in September and in the first 12 days of October 10,872.
Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3,21,179聽 people to hospitals in 2023 alone against 853 deaths and 2,44,246 hospitalisation between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data showed.
A dengue outbreak was聽 first officially reported in the country in 2000 when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were hospitalised, according to DGHS data.
Entomologists observed that dengue patients are on the rise largely due to the inactivity of the authorities concerned in the ongoing rain.
They predicted a peak of dengue in the first week of November.
