Staff Reporter:
Three more children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Tuesday, bring-ing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 918 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all three latest fatalities as sus-pected measles deaths.
With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 819, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained unchanged at 99.
A total of 1002 new suspected measles cases were reported during the period, bringing the cumula-tive number of suspected cases nationwide to 144,780.
Meanwhile, 59 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laborato-ry-confirmed infections to 17,989.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 126, 289 patients with suspected measles have been hospital-ised across the country, of whom 121,880 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
