Dhaka: Five more children died with measles and measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00 am on Wednesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 885 this year.
According to United News of Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported that among the recent fatalities, one was confirmed as a measles death, while the remaining four were classified as suspected deaths. This development brings the total number of confirmed measles deaths to 99 and suspected deaths to 786.
In the same 24-hour period, 941 new suspected measles cases were reported, raising the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 139,125. Additionally, 84 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 17,469.
Since March 15 this year, a total of 121,013 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country. Of these, 116,827 have recovered, as per the data provided by DGHS.