Staff Reporter:
Four children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,108 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all four latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With his, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1007, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 101.
A total of 1,221 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cu-mulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 191,731.
Meanwhile, 128 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 21,520.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 169,800 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 162,873 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
