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DHAKA, Nov 17, 2025 (BSS) - Health officials today said they recorded 1,007 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least three persons in the past 24 hours.

“We recorded deaths of three dengue patients in 24 hours ending at 8 am today,” a spokesman of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said adding his office simultaneously recorded 1,007 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.

According to the DGHS statistics, two died in areas with purview of Dhaka South City Corporation (DNCC) and one in Mymensingh division.

“Out of the 1,007 fresh cases, 150 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 135 in Chattogram division, 254 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 142 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 191 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 25 in Khulna division, 61 in Mymensingh division, 41 in Rajshahi division, five in Rangpur division and three in Sylhet division, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statement said.

Since the start of the dengue onslaughts Bangladesh this year witnessed so far 339 deaths while the disease inflicted 86,004.

The dengue last year claimed 575 lives and inflicted 1,01,214 people in the country.