The number of dengue patients will be higher this year than last year and most of the cases will be from outside Dhaka, said experts.

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

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

For the first time in the country’s history, dengue cases outside Dhaka district have outnumbered cases inside the district, raising an alarm that the situation may worsen outside Dhaka.

When there were more than one lakh reported cases of the dengue virus in the country in 2019, the death toll was 179, but this year 216 people have died so far from dengue even though cases are around half compared to three years ago.