News Desk : As many as 108 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Wednesday morning.

With this, a total of 479 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different hospitals.

Among them, 359 are receiving treatment in Dhaka while the rest 120 are outside the capital, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

It said a total of 26,741 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country as of today since January 1 this year.

To date, 98 people died of dengue while 26,164 out of the hospitalized patients recovered.