Six more people have died of dengue and 1,370 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Tuesday morning, said Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
As of today, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 67,138 this year.
Of them, a total of 326 people died of dengue.
DGHS said as many as 525 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients.
In 2023, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were reported while the highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.
