Five dengue patients die, 387 fresh cases detected overnight

Health officials on Sunday said they recorded 387 fresh dengue cases, killing at least five persons in the past 24 hours.

"We recorded deaths of five dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today," a spokesman of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said, adding his office simultaneously recorded 387 fresh dengue cases during the same period.

"Out of the 387 fresh cases, 40 were hospitalised in Barishal division, 71 in Chattogram division, 83 in Dhaka division excluding capital, 55 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 53 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 33 in Khulna division, 26 in Mymensingh division, 22 in Rajshahi division and four in Sylhet division, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.

Since the start of the dengue season this year, Bangladesh has witnessed 409 deaths, while the disease has infected 100,447 people.

The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and infected 1,01,214 people in the country.