Shawdesh Desk:

At least five people died of dengue and 534 others were hospitalized across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the death from dengue infection to 102 so far this year.

Of the deaths, two died in Chattogram, one each in Dhaka South and North City corporations, and in Khulna, according to the Directorate General of Health Services data.

According to the DGHS data, both the case of deaths and hospitalization are increasing. The hospitalization due to the mosquito-borne viral disease reached to 16,819 since January.

The deceased people are aged between 16 years and to 50 years. Three of them are women and two are men.

Of the deceased from dengue this year, 14 died in January, three in February, five in March, two in April, two in May, eight in June, 12 in July, 27 in August and 19 in the first 10 days of September.

Of the hospitalisation this year, 1,055 were reported in January, 339 in February, 311 in March, 504 in April, 644 in May, 798 in June, 2,669 in July, 6,521 in August and 3,978 in first 10 days of September.

Dengue killed 1,705 people and sent 3,21,179 people to hospitals in 2023 alone against 853 deaths and 2,44,246 hospitalisation between 2000 and 2022, the DGHS data showed.

A dengue outbreak was first officially reported in the country in 2000 when 93 people died and 5,551 patients were hospitalised, according to DGHS data.