Three more children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Tuesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 918 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all three latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 819, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained unchanged at 99.
A total of 1002 new suspected measles cases were reported during the period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 144,780.
Meanwhile, 59 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 17,989.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 126, 289 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 121,880 have recovered, according to DGHS data.