Health officials on Thursday said that they recorded 745 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least four persons in the past 24 hours.
鈥榃e recorded deaths of four dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Thursday,鈥� a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services said, adding that his office simultaneously recorded 745 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the period.
According to the DGHS statistics, one died in areas with purview of Chattogram division, two in Dhaka South City Corporation and one in Mymensingh division.
Out of the fresh cases, 125 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 89 in Chattogram, 154 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 127 in Dhaka South City Corporation and 116 in Dhaka North City Corporation areas, 32 in Khulna, 53 in Mymensingh, 48 in Rajshahi and one in Sylhet division, a DGHS statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts, Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 353 deaths while the disease inflicted 88,457.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.
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