Eleven more people died of dengue in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising this year鈥檚 total deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 459, including 234 women.
Of the deaths, five were reported in the Dhaka North City Corporation, four in the Dhaka South City聽聽 Corporation and two in the Khulna division, said a Directorate General of Health Services press release on Sunday.
During this period, 1,079 people with dengue were admitted to different hospitals across the country.
Of them, 194 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals under the DNCC while 121 were hospitalised in the DSCC area.
A total of 86,791 dengue hospitalisations have been reported since January 1. Dengue hospitalisations of males are higher than females, with 54,810 hospitalisations reported.
Of the hospitalisations 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 30, 879 in October.
This year, 14 dengue patients 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 134 in October.
The death rate from dengue among females is higher, with 51.0 per cent reported.
Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3,21,179 others to hospitals in 2023, making it the deadliest year on record, with 853 deaths and 2,44,246 hospitalisations between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data show.聽
Despite the rising number of hospitalisations with the mosquito-borne disease, the agencies concerned in Bangladesh have yet to establish an effective mechanism to pinpoint the areas from which the dengue virus is spreading, hindering ongoing efforts to control the disease and reduce its fatalities.
Knowing the exact spots from where the vector for dengue virus, the aedes mosquito, is spreading the germ is the first step in dengue management, according to entomologists and virologists.
The DSCC, meanwhile, claimed that about 78 per cent of the patients who visited hospitals within its jurisdiction were from various villages across the country, with similar wrong reporting allegedly occurring in the DNCC and other city corporations as well.聽
Entomologists observe that wrong reporting increases the risk of spreading the disease.
A dengue outbreak was first officially reported in the country in 2000 when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were hospitalised, according to the DGHS data.聽
