Sun News Desk : At least 9 dengue patients died and 1,565 were hospitalized in the last 24 hours across the country.
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The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Friday.
Dengue has so far claimed at least 453 lives this year and at least 95,877 have been infected, making this the deadliest year since the first recorded dengue epidemic in the country in 2000.
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Some 7,573 dengue patients were undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country till today morning.
A total of 87,851 patients have so far been released from hospitals across the country.
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