The DGHS said that in the last 24 hours (from 8:00 am on Saturday to 8:00 am on Sunday), 8 people died in various hospitals in Dhaka and three in hospitals outside Dhaka.
Of the 2,327 people admitted to hospitals, 920 were in Dhaka and 1,407 were outside the capital.
So far this year, a total of 114,511 dengue patients have been admitted to hospitals – 54,409 in Dhaka and 60,102 outside the capital.
The death toll from dengue has already reached a historic high as it has crossed the previous record of 281 deaths in 2022. A total of 204 people died of dengue in July and 297 this month. Earlier, 179 people died of dengue in 2019, seven in 2020 and 105 in 2021.