11 more children die in 24 hrs with measles-like symptoms
Staff Correspondent
Eleven more children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1076 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all eleven latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 975, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 101, it said.
A total of 1,157 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 183,449.
Meanwhile, 113 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 20,851.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 162,048 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 155,612 have recovered, according to DGHS data.
