DHAKA, Nov 12, 2025 (BSS) - Health officials today said they recorded 1,139 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts, killing at least five persons in the past 24 hours.

"We recorded deaths of five 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 1,139 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts during the same period.

"Out of the 1,139 fresh cases, 179 patients were hospitalised in Barishal division, 115 in Chattogram division, 223 in Dhaka division excluding the capital, 143 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and 254 in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) areas, 89 in Khulna division, 82 in Mymensingh division, 46 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 323 deaths while the disease inflicted 81,773.

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