At least two more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease

1,632 deaths, 3,13,706 cases this year

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Six more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till this morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,628 this year

At least seven dengue patients died, three from Dhaka, in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

The Rohingya community living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps has an alarmingly high exposure to HIV, said health professionals and NGO workers.

The country saw seven more deaths and 877 more hospitalisations due to dengue fever in the last 24 hours till this morning.

The intensive care unit at Jamalpur General Hospital has remained unused since its inauguration, depriving heart patients of required treatment for years.

At least five more dengue patients died, three from Dhaka, in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

At least five more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease

Leaving his chicken shop to his salesman, Abul Kashem rushed to gate-1 of New Market around 11:00am yesterday to buy essentials from a mobile shop of the government’s Open Market Sale programme.

Over 30,000 babies are born annually in the country with congenital heart defects, with only 3,000 of them having access to surgeries, according to Bangladesh Journal of Cardiac and Thoracic Anaesthesiology, 2023.

Of the deaths, one was reported in the capital

Aakash Ali injured his spine about a year ago and has been on a wheelchair for the past five months. For him, paralysis was nothing but a synonym of death.

8 more die, 920 hospitalised in a day

The severity of dengue infection continues to be high even as winter is here, which is otherwise a lean season for the disease.