Online Desk  :  A total of seven people have died of dengue, the highest in a single day, while 860 more patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across the country in the past 24 hours. The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 387 were hospitalised in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Saturday morning.

In addition, 98 were hospitalised in the Dhaka Division, 32 in the Mymensingh Division, 164 in the Chattogram Division, 53 in the Khulna Division, 2 in the Rajshahi Division, 17 in Rangpur division, 6 in the Sylhet Division, and 101 in the Barishal Division.

With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 28,565 this year. A total of 150 people died among them. The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000.

Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023. The highest 1,705 people also died of the disease that year.