Bangladesh reports record daily dengue hospitalisations this year, two deaths

Bangladesh has recorded the highest number of daily dengue hospitalisations this year, with 625 new patients admitted and two more fatalities in the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said the latest admissions brought the total number of hospitalisations to 36,096 this year. The previous daily high this year was 580 hospitalisations on Sunday. According to the health directorate bulletin, this year’s official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 139. One of the dead, a two-year-old child, was under treatment at Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. The other, a 40-year-old woman, died at Islami Bank Hospital, also in the capital. Deaths due to the Aedes mosquito-borne disease have varied sharply across...