At least 21 people died of dengue in Bangladesh on Saturday, the highest in a single day since health authorities began keeping records in 2000, bringing the total number of deaths to 618.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services, of the new deaths, 17 people died due to mosquito-borne dengue fever in Dhaka, keeping the capital as the epicenter of dengue fever turned endemic.
Dhaka also reported 456 deaths out of the total.
Total hospitalizations rose to almost 127,700, including nearly 59,600 cases from Dhaka, the health authority said in its daily dengue update.
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The Directorate General of Health Services said on Friday that it found larvae of the Aedes mosquito, responsible for dengue fever, in 40%-50% of homes in Dhaka city, a worrying sign of the worsening dengue situation, reports An
Urging people to rush to hospitals when they contract the virus, Md. Nazmul Islam, director of the health agency, told reporters that an average of 75 people have died from dengue since January.
Moreover, 90% of patients admitted to hospitals died within 72 hours of admission, he said, stressing the need for timely hospitalization.
Last year, 281 people died due to dengue in the South Asian country. Dengue, first recorded in the 1960s in Bangladesh as Dacca fever, has already begun to put pressure on the country's health systems, the World Health Organization warned.
Dengue is a viral infection that is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes, but there is no specific treatment for the infection.