One Dies of Dengue, 240 New Cases Reported Overnight

Health officials today said they recorded 240 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least one person in the past 24 hours. "We recorded death of one dengue patient in 24 hours ending at 8 am today," a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 240 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.

"Out of the 240 fresh cases, 36 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 20 in Chattogram division, 57 in Dhaka division excluding capital, 31 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 59 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 14 in Khulna division, 14 in Mymensingh division, seven in Rajshahi division, one in Rangpur division and one 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 410 deaths while the disease inflicted 101,293. The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.