Shawdesh Desk:

Around 1,577 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics across the country.

Among them, 583 patients are taking treatment in Dhaka division and 994 are hospitalised outside the capital, a release of Health Crisis Management and Control Room of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Sunday.

A total of 87,605 patients got admitted to the different hospitals across the country since January this year. Of them, 85,797 patients have returned home after recovery, the DGHS said.

According to Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), 81 people have so far died of the Aedes mosquito-borne disease.

Around 342 new dengue patients got admitted to different hospitals in the last 24 hours across the country. Of them, 98 were admitted in Dhaka and 244 out of the capital, the release added.