HELEMUL ALAM

At least 17,651 dengue patients were hospitalised in the first week of August, which is five times higher than the number of cases in the first week of July and 24 times of that in June.

A total of 3,320 and 698 cases were recorded in July and June respectively.

The number of dengue cases this month will be much higher than that of July, which was 43,854, fear experts.

According to Directorate General of Health Services, 14 dengue patients died while 2,751 others were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

With the new cases, 69,483 dengue patients have been hospitalised so far this year, while the total number of deaths rose to 327.

Contacted, Entomologist Kabirul Bashar of Jahangirnagar University said, “Aedes mosquitoes will lay eggs A

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