Seven children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Thursday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,009 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all seven latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 909, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 100.
A total of 1,165 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 168,745.
Meanwhile, 29 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 19,933.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 148,505 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 142,888 have recovered, according to DGHS data.