Dengue Claims One Life, 120 New Cases Reported Overnight

Health officials today said they recorded 120 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least one person in the past 24 hours. "We recorded death of one dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today," a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 120 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.

"Out of the 120 fresh cases, 12 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 59 in Chattogram division, six in Dhaka division excluding capital, 18 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 10 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, three in Khulna division, nine in Mymensingh division, one in Rajshahi division and two in Sylhet division, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said. Since the start of the dengue onslaughts Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 413 deaths while the disease inflicted 102,793. The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.