Four dengue patients died while 1,503 were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

One of the deceased was a woman, aged 60, from Barguna district. The others -- aged 18, 58 and 60 -- were  all from Dhaka.

This data, however, does not contain any updates on deaths or hospital admissions from Mugda Medical College Hospital and 24 other private hospitals in Dhaka.

With this, the number of deaths from the mosquito-borne disease this year rose to 229 and the number of hospital admissions to 44,205.

Of them, a total of 35,300 have recovered from the viral fever and 8,676 are undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country.

The age distribution of dengue patients showed that people in the 21-25 age group were the worst affected, followed by the 26-30 group.

According to the DGHS data, a total of 6,766 people in the 21-25 age group were hospitalised with dengue infection as of yesterday. Of them, 24 died.

During the same period, a total of 5,959 people in the 26-30 age group were hospitalised. Of them, 22 died.