Disease
Dengue death toll rises to 19 with one more fatality
One more person died from dengue, and 135 people were hospitalised with the viral infection in the 24 hours to Sunday morning as cases have continued to increase in Bangladesh.
So far, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reported 19 deaths from mosquito-borne viral disease – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries.
The latest death was reported from Dhaka. Of all the deceased, 10 were from Cox's Bazar and nine from Dhaka.
Up to today, 116 new patients were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 19 outside it, the DGHS said.
Read: 40 new dengue patients hospitalized
Four hundred and fifty-four dengue patients, including 392 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. In July, it recorded 1,571 dengue cases and nine deaths.
This year, the directorate has recorded 4,480 dengue cases and 4,007 recoveries so far.
Bangladesh sees zero Covid death, 173 cases
Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and173 new cases in the 24 hours to Sunday morning.
While the country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,315, the new cases took its caseload to 2,009,970, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case test positivity rate fell to 3.76 percent from Saturday's 4.42 percent as 4,603 samples were tested.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate rose to 97.20 percent from Saturday's 97.19 percent.
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In July, the country reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest monthly death toll and caseload since March this year.
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year.
Bangladesh logs 100 new Covid cases, zero death
Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and 100 new cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning.
While the country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,315, the new cases took the caseload to 2,009,797, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case test positivity rate increased to 4.42 per cent from Friday’s 3.32 per cent as 2,265 samples were tested.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent and the recovery rate rose to 97.19 per cent from Friday’s 97.18 per cent.
Read: Bangladesh reports 3 more Covid deaths, 365 new cases
In July, the country reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest monthly death toll and caseload since March this year.
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
Dengue numbers keep rising: 93 new cases reported
Ninety-three more people were hospitalised with dengue – a viral infection – in the 24 hours to Thursday morning as cases have continued to increase in Bangladesh.
Eighty-one new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 12 outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Four hundred and nineteen dengue patients, including 357 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
This year's death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to 17 Tuesday with one more death reported from Dhaka.
Read: 40 new dengue patients hospitalized
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. In July, it recorded 1,571 dengue cases and nine deaths.
This year, the directorate has recorded 4,174 dengue cases and 3,738 recoveries so far.
Bangladesh reports one more Covid death, 226 new cases
One more person died from Covid, and 226 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Sunday morning.
While the country's total fatalities reached 29,313, the new number took its caseload to 2,008,870, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case test positivity rate rose to 4.32 percent from Saturday's 4.29 percent as 5,226 samples were tested.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate rose to 97.14 from Saturday's 97.12 percent.
In July, the country reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest monthly death toll and caseload since March this year.
Read: Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death toll stands at 2,668
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
Although the current pandemic phase may be characterised by relatively low incidence and risk for hospitalisation and death, the Omicron variant remains highly transmissible.
The potential for surges highlights that "countries cannot afford to ease up" on vaccinating their populations against Covid, "especially their health care workers, the elderly and those with comorbidities," according to the World Health Organization.
Bangladesh reports zero Covid death, 144 new cases
Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and 144 new cases in the 24 hours to Saturday morning.
The country last reported zero Covid-linked death on August 7.
While Bangladesh's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,332, the new number took its caseload to 2,008,644, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case test positivity rate dropped to 4.29 percent from Friday's 4.75 percent as 3,357 samples were tested.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate rose to 97.12 from Friday's 97.13 percent.
In July, the country reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest monthly death toll and caseload since March this year.
Read: Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 43 cases, zero death
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
Although the current pandemic phase may be characterised by relatively low incidence and risk for hospitalisation and death, the Omicron variant remains highly transmissible.
The potential for surges highlights that "countries cannot afford to ease up" on vaccinating their populations against Covid, "especially their health care workers, the elderly and those with comorbidities," according to the World Health Organization.
Dengue death toll rises to 15 with one more fatality
One more person died from dengue, and 87 people were hospitalised with the viral infection in the 24 hours to Sunday morning as cases have continued to increase in Bangladesh.
So far, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reported 15 deaths from mosquito-borne viral disease – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries.
The latest death was reported from Cox's Bazar. Of all the deceased, 10 were from Cox's Bazar and five from Dhaka.
Up to today, 73 new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 14 in other parts of the country.
Read: Dengue: 24 new patients hospitalised
Three hundred and eighty-seven dengue patients, including 315 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. This year, it has recorded 3,184 dengue cases and 2,782 recoveries so far.
Dengue numbers keep rising: 1 more death, 80 cases reported
One more person died from dengue, and 80 people were hospitalised with the viral infection in the 24 hours to Sunday morning as cases have continued to increase in Bangladesh after a few months of low figures.
So far, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reported 10 deaths from mosquito-borne viral disease – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries.
Up to today, 57 new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 23 outside it.
Three hundred and twenty-eight dengue patients, including 255 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease. This year, it has recorded 2,660 dengue cases and 2,322 recoveries so far.
Read: 61 more dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs
69 more Dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs
Sixty-nine more dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Thursday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Among them, 52 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while the remaining 17 in other places, it said.
As many as 264 dengue patients, including 203 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
On Tuesday, this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to five with two more deaths reported from Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease.
Read: Dengue: 24 new patients hospitalised
This year, the DGHS has recorded 1,979 dengue cases and 1,710 recoveries so far.
Although dengue – a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries – was first reported in Bangladesh in 1964, the first epidemic occurred in 2000, claiming 93 lives that year. It has since become endemic in the country, with outbreaks recorded every year since. Although for a three-year period at one point, the number of deaths from the virus fell almost near zero, its most fatal year yet was in 2019, when 179 died experiencing the severe form of the disease.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, it seemed to take a backseat, as only three deaths were reported from dengue that year.
However, 105 dengue patients, including 95 in Dhaka division, died in 2021.
Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas.
Read: Dengue: 35 new patients hospitalised
About 4 billion people, almost half of the world's population, live in areas with a risk of dengue, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Each year, up to 400 million people get infected with dengue while approximately 100 million get sick from infection, and 40,000 die from severe dengue, it says.
"There is no specific treatment for dengue or severe dengue. Early detection of disease progression associated with severe dengue, and access to proper medical care lowers fatality rates of severe dengue to below 1 per cent," according to the World Health Organization.
Animal-to-human diseases rise in Africa: WHO
Diseases transmitted from animals to people in Africa jumped 63 percent in the last decade, compared with the previous 10 years, according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) analysis.
More than 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are caused by pathogens shared with wild or domestic animals, WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said Thursday.
"They account for a substantial burden of disease, resulting in about a billion sick people, and millions of deaths globally every year."
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The analysis finds that since 2001, 1,843 substantiated public health events were recorded in Africa – 30 percent of which were zoonotic outbreaks, as animal-to-human diseases are known.
While the numbers increased over the past two decades, 2019 and 2020 saw a particular spike, with zoonotic pathogens accounting for half of all public health events.
Also, Ebola and similar fevers triggering blood loss from damaged vessels (haemorrhagic) constitute nearly 70 percent of these outbreaks, including monkeypox, dengue fever, anthrax and plague.
Although there has been an increase in monkeypox since April, compared to the same period in 2021, the numbers are still lower than the 2020 peak, when the region recorded its highest monthly cases.
Following a sudden drop in 2021, 203 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been recorded in the region since the beginning of the year, as the zoonotic disease has spread worldwide into many countries where it has not been endemic.
Available data for 175 of the cases this year in Africa, indicate that just over half the patients when averaged out, were 17-year-old men.
Africa cannot be allowed to become a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases, Dr Matshidiso said.
Rising urbanisation, which has encroached on natural habitats, is likely responsible for this increase in the animal-to-human disease spike, along with a growing demand for food, which has led to the faster road, rail and air links from remote to built-up areas.
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The West African Ebola outbreaks are evidence of the devastating number of cases, and deaths, that can result when zoonotic diseases arrive in our cities, Matshidiso noted.
Turning to Covid-19, she said while cases on the continent decreased marginally last week, the overall plateau continues, due to rapidly increasing numbers in North Africa, for the eighth consecutive week.
"The surge is being driven primarily by the escalating situation in Morocco and Tunisia, which spurred a 17 percent increase in new cases in North Africa, compared to last week's statistics," Matshidiso said.
At the same time, improved rapid detection and response capacities have enabled Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, to reverse a recent surge in new cases – a turn that is expected to follow across North African countries with the same medical capabilities.
The curve has already begun trending downwards in Morocco, Matshidiso added.
Although the current pandemic phase may be characterised by relatively low incidence and risk for hospitalisation and death, the Omicron variant remains highly transmissible, and the pandemic is far from over.
The potential for surges highlights that "countries cannot afford to ease up" on vaccinating their populations against Covid-19, especially their health care workers, the elderly and those with comorbidities," the WHO official said.