Online Desk : As many as 74 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning.

With this, a total of 402 patients diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease are taking treatment at different hospitals.

Among them, 293 are receiving treatment in the government hospitals while the rest 109 in private ones, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

It said a total of 27,078 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 26,578 out of the hospitalized patients recovered.