Staff Reporter:
Six children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Monday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 973 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all six latest fatalities as suspect-ed measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 874, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 99.
A total of 1,162 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 157,991.
Meanwhile, 94 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laborato-ry-confirmed infections to 19,312.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 138,445 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 133,404 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
