The deceased was identified as Shadhona Rani, 45, a resident of Betagi upazila.
She was admitted to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) on Saturday night with severe dengue. “Shadhona died around 6:30am,” said Dr Bakir Hossain, director of the hospital.
Currently 1,577 patients, including 583 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals for dengue.
A number of Southeast Asian countries, including Bangladesh, were hit hard by a massive outbreak of dengue fever this year. The situation has been improving gradually in Bangladesh in recent weeks with relatively fewer cases and deaths being reported every day.
Since January, 87,605 people were hospitalised with dengue, most of them in Dhaka. Of them, 85,797 went home after full recovery.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research received reports of 231 dengue-related deaths since the beginning of this year. It has reviewed 136 cases so far and confirmed 81 people had died of dengue.