Two 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 1,242 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all the latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,137, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 105.
A total of 1,322 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 225,106.
Meanwhile, 90 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 23,631.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 200,319 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 192,178 have recovered, according to DGHS data.