Staff Reporter
Six more children died with measles and mea-sles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and sus-pected measles-related deaths to 1140 this year.
According to the Direc-torate General of Health Services (DGHS), two were confirmed as mea-sles-related while the remaining four were clas-sified as suspected deaths.
With this, the total num-ber of confirmed deaths from measles has risen to 104 and suspected deaths to 1036.
A total of 1280 new sus-pected measles cases were reported during the period, bringing the cu-mulative number of sus-pected cases nationwide to 200,293.
Meanwhile, 110 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of la-boratory-confirmed in-fections to 22,020.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 177,676 pa-tients with suspected measles have been hospi-talised across the coun-try, of them 170,473 have recovered, accord-ing to DGHS data.
