At least 17 people died of acute respiratory infection and 33 from diarrhoea caused by rotavirus and other diseases across Bangladesh from Nov. 1 to Dec. 28, according to health officials
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The country’s lowest temperature this year was recorded at 4.5 degrees C early on Sunday in Tetulia, a border town in Bangladesh’s north, the weather office said. Those on low incomes, particularly labourers, are the worst affected by the cold weather because they lack clothes while many others, especially children and the elderly people, are prone to diseases such as pneumonia, Akhter said.
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