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Dengue: 2 die, 194 hospitalised in 24 hours
Health officials today said they recorded 194 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least two persons in the past 24 hours.
"We recorded deaths of two dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today," a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 194 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.
"Out of the 194 fresh cases, 32 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 45 in Chattogram division, 26 in Dhaka division excluding capital, 22 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 28 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 23 in Khulna division, five in Mymensingh division, 12 in Rajshahi division and one in Rangpur division, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.
Since the start of the dengue onslaughts Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 412 deaths while the disease inflicted 101,791.
The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country, reports BSS.