Online Desk  :  Eight more people have died of dengue while 1,221 more patients – the highest for a single day – have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across the country in the past 24 hours.The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 453 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Sunday morning.

In addition, 250 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 46 in the Mymensingh Division, 183 in the Chattogram Division, 134 in the Khulna Division, 53 in the Rajshahi Division, 28 in the Rangpur Division, and 74 in the Barishal Division. With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 29,786 this year. A total of 158 people died among them. The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000. Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.