At least two more people died of dengue and 490 others were hospitalised across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the number of death from dengue infection to 201 so far this year.
Both of the deceased, one male and another female, died in Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services data.
According to the DGHS data, both the cases of deaths and hospitalisation are increasing. The hospitalisation due to the mosquito-borne viral disease reached 40, 895 since January.
In 2023, Bangladesh recorded 1,122 deaths due to dengue and 231,204 hospitalisations at the same time.
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 38 in the first 11 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 9,957 in the first 11 days of October.
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 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 were on the rise largely due to the inactivity of the authorities concerned in the ongoing rain.
They estimated a peak of dengue in the first week of November.