Seven children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Sunday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles deaths to 1,196 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) classified all seven latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,092, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 104.
A total of 1,254 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, taking the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 213,244.
Meanwhile, 65 new confirmed measles cases were recorded in the 24-hour period, pushing laboratory-confirmed infections to 23,122.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 189,484 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 181,756 have recovered, according to the DGHS.