One dengue patient died in a hospital in Dhaka in the last 24 hours till this morning.

However, 36 hospitals today did not provide their dengue reports which will be added the next day.

With the new deaths, the total number of deaths in dengue rose to 156, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least 896 dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till this morning, of which 493 were outside Dhaka.

Some 6,076 dengue patients are still undergoing treatment of which 2,516 are from outside Dhaka.

A total of 22,211 dengue patients were released from hospitals, of which 7,855 were from outside Dhaka.

The total number of deaths in dengue was 281 last year while the total number of cases was 62,382, of which 23,162 were outside Dhaka.

Experts urged authorities concerned to conduct extensive drives identifying clusters of Aedes mosquitoes as soon as possible.