Nine more patients died of dengue fever in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours, taking the nation's total dengue mortality figure for 2026 to 316, according to the latest press release issued on Tuesday (October 13, 2026) by the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
During the same 24-hour period, 1,954 new patients were admitted to hospitals across the country with dengue infection. Dhaka Division registered the heaviest outbreak burden, recording 845 total new cases (465 in districts outside the city corporations, 191 in Dhaka South City Corporation, and 189 in Dhaka North City Corporation). Across other divisions, Chattogram recorded 318 new hospitalizations, followed by Khulna (230), Barishal (196), Rajshahi (184), Mymensingh (97), Rangpur (71), and Sylhet (13).
As of October 13, 2026, the cumulative number of dengue hospitalizations in the country has reached 103,396. On a positive note, 2,965 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking total recoveries to 97,296. Comparative DGHS data shows that Bangladesh recorded 102,861 total dengue cases and 413 deaths in 2025, 101,214 cases and 575 deaths in 2024, and a record 321,179 hospitalizations and 1,705 deaths in 2023.
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