A total of 348 dengue patients have been admitted to different hospitals across Bangladesh in the last 24 hours.
Till 8am on Monday (Sept 30), 100 new patients were admitted in Dhaka and 248 in districts outside Dhaka.
The Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in a media release issued on Monday, said the number of patients currently undergoing treatment in government and private hospitals in the country was 1,481.
A total of 81 dengue patients have died across Bangladesh from Jan 1 till Sept 30, according to their own collected data. However, the unofficial death toll is reported to be over 168, so far.
As many as 555 patients were currently receiving treatment in 41 government and private hospitals in Dhaka, whereas 926 people were undergoing treatment outside Dhaka, the DGHS data said.
Since Jan 1 till Sept 30, as many as 87,953 people have been affected by dengue.
Among those admitted, a total of 86,281 have been released from their respective hospitals and clinics after treatment.