The crisis has reached a stage where a victim's family now accepts its fate as an unavoidable misfortune

The health directorate has instructed all health officials across the country not to send any dengue patients to Dhaka from outside the capital for treatment

The mosquito-borne disease has so far claimed at least 790 lives this year

Advancements in genetic engineering have led to the development of genetically modified mosquitoes that are resistant to dengue virus infection.

Treatment of seriously ill dengue patients is being affected by an acute shortage of the kit needed to extract platelets from whole blood in a method that requires only a single donor.

We even have our own experts repeatedly giving warnings ahead of the dengue season, and every year, they fall on deaf ears.

With 2,192 new patients admitted to hospitals yesterday, dengue cases hit a record high since its first official outbreak in 2000, crossing the 1,00,000-threshold in eight months this year.

The situation has further deteriorated in June with the onset of monsoon, which is the breeding season for Aedes mosquitoes.

August witnessed 3,551 dengue cases, more than double the number recorded in July. This indicates that the dengue situation is further deteriorating.

At least 34 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours, till 8am today (July 7, 2022).

Authorities will review the deaths of 89 people, amid confusion over the number of fatalities from dengue.

For the last one week, hospitals outside Dhaka are receiving more dengue patients than those in the capital.

Students and officegoers are most vulnerable to dengue infection, according to a government survey.

Major terminals in the capital remain ripe for Aedes mosquito breeding as hundreds of thousands of people are arriving in the city after Eid holidays.

Jannatul Mawa, 5, spent part of her Eid day in the children’s park of Dhaka Shishu Hospital, which has around 80 dengue patients, before returning to her hospital bed.

Heavy rains in Dhaka since Wednesday have increased the chances of Aedes mosquitoes breeding in cattle markets.