Sun News Desk: Some 131 patients were admitted to different hospitals with dengue fever in and outside the capital of Dhaka in the last 24 hours until Friday.
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The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Saturday (August 27).
With this, a total of 586 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different government and private hospitals.
Out of them, 485 are being treated at the facilities of Dhaka while 101 are in other divisions.
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As per the release, a total of 5,316 dengue patients were hospitalized across the country today since January 1 this year.
To date, 19 people died of dengue during the period while 4,711 out of the hospitalized patients recovered.
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