Staff Reporter:
Five more children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Monday, bring-ing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 938 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all five latest fatalities as sus-pected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 839, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 99, it said.
A total of 1,149 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to150,652.
Meanwhile, 83 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laborato-ry-confirmed infections to 18,487.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 131,664 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 126,921 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
