Staff Reporter:
Three more children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Monday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1099 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all three latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 998, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 101.
A total of 1,214 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cu-mulative number of suspected cases nationwide to189,255
Meanwhile, 96 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 21,308
Since March 15 this year, a total of 167,469 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 160,705 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
