<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Another death from dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning raised this year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 162.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the period, 498 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest death was reported from Khulna division, taking its death toll to seven.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The death toll remained unchanged at 100 in Dhaka division, at 41 in Chattogram, six in Barishal and at four each in Rajshahi and Mymensingh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of the new patients, 325 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 173 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 3,660 dengue patients, including 2,232 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The directorate has recorded 41,481 dengue cases and 37,659 recoveries so far this year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday, the country reported nine dengue deaths, the highest death toll from dengue in a day this year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even before the country's healthcare system has been able to fully recover from the blow of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is being hit hard by a recurrence of an outbreak of dengue, the disease that is endemic to Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Doctors and health experts say that measures taken by the city corporations and other authorities are not proving to be effective. The publicity and drives carried out by the authorities to destroy larvae of Aedes mosquito are proving to be inadequate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dengue outbreaks in Bangladesh exceeded all previous records in 2019, mostly in the capital city of Dhaka. A total of 101,354 dengue cases with 179 dengue-related deaths were officially recorded. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>