Dengue cases have seen a rise across Bangladesh in the first week of the new year after witnessing the worst outbreak in 2019, according to the government’s health department.
As many as 21 people have been hospitalised with dengue-related fever across the country in the last 24 hours, said the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a media release.
Till 8am on Saturday (Jan 4), 19 new patients were admitted in Dhaka and 8 others outside the capital, it said.
According to DGHS, as many as 17 new patients were hospitalised with dengue on Jan 2.
The number of patients currently undergoing treatment in government and private hospitals in the country was 43, including 36 in the capital, reads the DGHS statement.
In 2019, as many as 101,344 people were hospitalised with dengue. Of them, 101,018 were discharged from hospital after treatment, it added.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research confirmed 148 deaths caused by dengue last year, according to the statement.
No death was reported in the New Year.