Staff Reporter:
Two more children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Monday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,164 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) classified all two latest fatalities as suspected mea-sles deaths.
With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,060, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 104.
A total of 1,269 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, taking the cumu-lative number of suspected cases nationwide to 206,297
Meanwhile, 152 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, pushing laboratory-confirmed infections to 22,573.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 183,226 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of them 175,655 have recovered, according to the DGHS.
