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.