Online Desk: Eight more people died from dengue fever across the country during the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 1,425 this year.

Among the new deaths, three were reported in Dhaka and five others were outside the capital.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), some 1,895 patients were hospitalised with viral fever during this period.

Among the new patients, 394 were admitted to the hospital in the capital and 1,501 are outside it.

A total of 6,555 patients are currently receiving treatment from different hospitals across the country.

As many as 2,83,593 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country this year and 2,75,613 out of the hospitalised patients, however, recovered during the period.

The country recorded 281 dengue deaths in 2022, the highest on record after the 179 deaths recorded in 2019. Additionally, the DGHS recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year.