One more person died from dengue, and 60 people were hospitalised with the viral infection in the 24 hours to Monday morning as cases have continued to increase in Bangladesh after a few months of low figures. So far, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reported seven deaths from mosquito-borne viral disease – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries. Read: Covid numbers rising in Bangladesh: 5 more deaths, 548 cases reported Up to today, 40 new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 20 outside it. Two hundred and seventy-six dengue patients, including 212 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country. On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. This year, it has recorded 2,206 dengue cases and 1,923 recoveries so far.  

One more dengue patient died while 31 others were hospitalized in 24 hours till Thursday morning, health authorities said. Bangladesh reported of 60 new hospitalization with Dengue fever on Wednesday. With the latest death, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 101 during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Ninety-two people died in Dhaka division alone, three in Mymensingh division, two each in Chattogram, and Khulna divisions and one each in Rajshahi and Barishal divisions. Twenty-one new patients are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dhaka while the remaining 10 cases have been reported from outside the division. Read: Bangladesh again reports zero Covid fatality in nearly 3 weeks Some 213patients diagnosed with dengue are receiving treatment in the country as of Thursday. Of them, 145 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 68 were listed outside Dhaka. Since January, some 27,870 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with dengue in the country. So far, 27,556 dengue patients have left hospitals after recovery, said DGHS. What experts say Experts attribute the unusually high dengue cases during the dry season, mainly in Dhaka, to the prolonged rainy season, sporadic rainfall, and high humidity and temperature, Aedes mosquitoes' reproductive and behavioural changes caused by climate change and lack of people’s awareness and poor controlling measures by the two city corporations of the capital. They also said the climate conditions of Bangladesh are becoming more favourable for the Aedes mosquitos to prevail in all seasons with high or low intensity mainly for the increase in temperature and breeding sources.