Online Desk:At least 301 people were hospitalised with dengue infection in the past 24 hours ending 8:00am on Saturday.

The new cases took to 13,556 the number of people hospitalised with the mosquito-borne viral disease Since January, 2021, according to the Health Emergency Centre and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services.

In the past 24 hours, 253 dengue patients were hospitalised in Dhaka and 48 in other districts, said the DGHS release.

Dengue claimed 54 lives in 2021, said the release.

Of the 54 people who died of dengue, 50 were in the capital, two in Chattogram division and one each was in Rajshahi and Khulna divisions.