Dengue Bangladesh: When there were more than one lakh reported cases of the dengue virus in the country in 2019, the death toll was 179, but this year 216 people have died so far from dengue even though cases are around half compared to three years ago.
Mentioning that Bangladesh did not have Aedes mosquitoes before, Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam has said that air travellers may have brought the disease with them in the country. He said that the government is agitated over the current dengue situation in the country. "We have developed resistance against dengue since 2019.