Staff Reporter:
Three more children have died from measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8:00am on Saturday, raising the fatalities from the disease in Bangladesh to 613.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified the latest casualties as suspected.
With the latest figure, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 522, while the con-firmed deaths remained unchanged at 91.
A total of 915 suspected measles cases were recorded in 24 hours till Saturday morning, taking the over-all suspected cases to 77,791.
During the same period, 117 new confirmed measles cases were reported, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 9,620.
Since March 15, a total of 63,134 suspected measles patients were hospitalised, of whom 58,964 have recovered, according to the DGHS.
