Health Minister Zahed Maleque today said that about 1,700 people have so far been infected with dengue this year, which is five times the number of infected at the same time last year.
At least five dengue patients died while 873 others were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours till this morning (October 31, 2022).
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.