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Six dengue patients die, 788 new hospitalised
Health officials today said they recorded 788 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least six persons in the past 24 hours.
"We recorded deaths of six 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 788 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
According to the DGHS statistics, two died in areas with purview of Dhaka North City Corporation, one in Dhaka South City Corporation (DNCC) and three in Rajshahi division.
"Out of the 788 fresh cases, 87 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 108 in Chattogram division, 130 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 86 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 166 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 66 in Khulna division, 54 in Mymensingh division, 88 in Rajshahi division and three 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 349 deaths while the disease inflicted 87,712, reports BSS.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.