Staff Reporter:
Four more children have died from measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00 am on Wednesday, raising Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 661.
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the latest four deaths have been classi-fied as suspected measles fatalities.
With the latest update, the number of suspected measles deaths has risen to 568, while the number of laboratory-confirmed measles deaths remained unchanged at 93.
A total of 966 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, taking the cumula-tive number of suspected cases nationwide to 88,895.
Meanwhile, 111 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 10,634.
Since March 15, a total of 73,277 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 69,688 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
