A child lies on a bed after getting hospitalised for dengue treatment at Mugda Medical College and Hospital, as the yearly death toll from dengue has surpassed the previous record in the country, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5 September 2023. Reuters
13 more people have succumbed to dengue in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning, bringing the death toll to 1,393 this year.
During the period, 1,638 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country," the DGHS daily statement added.
According to the statement, from January 1 to November 4 this year, a total of 2,77,801 people have been affected by dengue across the country. Among them some 2,69,772 patients were released from different hospitals out of the total patients."
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