Dengue takes alarming turn in Dhaka
City bodies more busy with awareness campaigns than containing mosquitoes
Tanzil Rahaman | Published: 23:36, Aug 02,2021 | Updated: 23:42, Aug 02,2021
The number of hospitalised dengue patients is increasing sharply in Bangladesh s capital Dhaka during the monsoon in the absence of effective measures of the city authorities to contain Aedes mosquitoes responsible for the viral disease.
City residents are worried over the dengue outbreak at a time when the country is facing the Covid crisis.
More than 96.79 per cent of the dengue patients hospitalised in the country this year is in Dhaka.
Among 3,182 people hospitalised with dengue since January, 3,080 patients are from Dhaka.
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Liveability Index: Dhaka fourth least livable city in world
Rickshaws and other vehicles negotiate an inundated street in the capital’s Bangabazar area yesterday afternoon. Locals said the road got flooded after rain for half an hour or so as plastic bottles and other garbage clogged the drains there. Photo:
Amran Hossain
Dhaka has been ranked the fourth least liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit s annual global survey.
The EIU s Global Liveability Index ranks 140 cities based on more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.