Staff Reporter:
Six more children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Wednesday bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,295this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all six latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,190, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 105.
A total of 1,351 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, pushing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 242,907.
Meanwhile, 113 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 24,723.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 216,806 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of them 207,903 have recovered, DGHS data said.
