At least eight dengue patients died in the last 24 hours while 1,221 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

All three deaths are from Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) areas, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Rajkumar Das stood with his son, Saikat Kumar Das, at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for over an hour, desperately seeking a bed in the male dengue ward.

For the second time in a week, Bangladesh recorded five deaths from dengue yesterday, the highest number of single-day dengue deaths this year.

High density of Aedes larvae were found in 29 wards of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 12 wards in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), showing an alarming picture this season

One person died due to dengue today. This is the first death of this year related to the disease, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till this morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,699 this year

Preventing dengue does not depend solely upon the activities of city authorities.

At least four more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease

At least two more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease

At least two more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today

1,632 deaths, 3,13,706 cases this year

The country saw seven more deaths and 877 more hospitalisations due to dengue fever in the last 24 hours till this morning.

8 more die, 920 hospitalised in a day

1,595 deaths, 3,07,196 cases this year

At least eight dengue patients died, four of them in Dhaka, during the 24 hours till this morning

1,476 deaths, 2,91,832 cases this year

Of the deaths, six were reported in the capital

The crisis has reached a stage where a victim's family now accepts its fate as an unavoidable misfortune

We need a comprehensive, long-term policy for addressing dengue and other weather-based diseases.