Dengue claimed two more lives in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the death tally to 51. Besides, 265 new Dengue patients were hospitalised during the period, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Read: Dengue: 184 more hospitalised in 24 hrs Of the new patients, 232 were in Dhaka while the remaining cases were reported from outside the division. Some 1,273 patients diagnosed with dengue fever are receiving treatment in the country as of Saturday morning, DGHS said. Among them, 1,137 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 136 were listed outside Dhaka. According to DGHS, 11,501 patients have been diagnosed with dengue this year and 10,174 of them have been released from hospitals after recovery, according to DGHS. Of the deaths so far, 47 were reported in Dhaka city, two in Chattogram division and one each in Khulna and Rajshahi divisions. Read:Risk of dengue outbreak rises amid lockdown Health authorities have been recording over 200 dengue cases per day since August 1. The dengue cases continue to rise alarmingly when the country is battling the deadlier Delta variant of coronavirus with its limited health care facilities for the last few months.

This year’s dengue death toll  reached 41 as one more died of the fever in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning, according to Directorate General of Health Services. Besides,265 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease, said the DGHS. Among the new patients, 214 were admitted to government and private hospitals in Dhaka while the remaining 51 cases were reported from outside the Dhaka division. According to the DGHS, 9,569 patients have been diagnosed with dengue this year . Read: Risk of dengue outbreak rises amid lockdown Some 1,111patients diagnosed with dengue fever are receiving treatment in the country as of Friday morning, the DGHS said. Of them, 967 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 144 were listed outside Dhaka. Health authorities have been recording over 200 dengue cases per day since August 1 which seemed to have declined in the last 24 hours. Read: Dengue surge in Bangladesh: 224 more hospitalized in 24 hrs So far, 8,415 dengue patients have been released from hospitals after recovery, according to the DGHS. The dengue outbreak has become a cause of major concern as the country is battling the deadlier Delta variant of coronavirus with its limited healthcare facilities for the last few months.

Although Bangladesh saw no deaths from dengue in the past 24 hours till early Friday, 221 more people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne fever. Among the new patients, 212 were admitted to government and private hospitals in Dhaka alone. According to the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), 7,472 patients have been diagnosed with dengue this year, including at least 31 deaths. Read: Risk of dengue outbreak rises amid lockdown July and August accounted for all the deaths; and of the deceased, 27 were from Dhaka division, two from Chattogram, one each from Khulna and Rajshahi. The new infection tally indicates the fast-rising trend of the Aedes-borne disease in Dhaka. The country has been seeing over 200 dengue cases a day for the last 19 days since August 1. Around 1,190 patients diagnosed with dengue fever are now receiving treatment and almost all the dengue cases have been found in the capital so far. Of them, 1,094 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka. Read: Dengue spike in Bangladesh: 242 more hospitalized in 24 hrs So far, 6, 251 dengue patients have been released from hospitals, according to the DGHS. A sharp spike in dengue cases deals a double blow to Bangladesh as the country's healthcare system has already been battered by a worsening Covid crisis, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant. On Friday, 145 Covid-19 related deaths were reported across the country in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 25,023. During the same period, 5,993 new cases were reported, taking the total caseload to 14,53,203.