Online Desk: A total of 22 new dengue patients hospitalized in the country in the last 24hours till Saturday morning , raising the number of infections to 981 this year.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease remained unchanged at 14 as no deaths were reported during the period.
Of the new cases, five were hospitalized in Dhaka and 17 outside it.
Dhaka also accounted for 50 of the 135 dengue patients undergoing treatment at hospitals in the morning. The other districts were treating 85 dengue patients.
Dengue claimed 1,705 lives in 2023.