Staff Reporter:
Ten children died from measles and symptoms consistent with the highly contagious but preventable dis-ease in the country in 24 hours till 8:00am on Sunday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the new deaths, one was confirmed as measles-related, while the remaining nine were classified as suspected. Of the suspected deaths, highest four were recorded in Dhaka.
With this, the total number of confirmed deaths from measles has risen to 50 and suspected deaths to 244 since March 15.
According to DGHS data, a total of 1,166 suspected measles cases were recorded in the past 24 hours. Since March 15, the total number of suspected cases has reached 40,491.
During this period, 95 new confirmed measles cases were reported, bringing the total number of con-firmed infections to 5,313.
Since March 15, a total of 27,816 suspected measles patients have been hospitalised, while 24,090 of them have recovered.
