Four children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Sunday, raising the country\u2019s combined number of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 967 this year.<\/p>\n
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all four latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.<\/p>\n
With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 868, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 99.<\/p>\n
3 more children die with measles-like symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n A total of 1,151 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 156,829.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, 365 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 19,218.<\/p>\n Since March 15 this year, a total of 137,347 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 132,292 have recovered, according to DGHS data.<\/p>\n -UNB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[141,143,142,140,144],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-bangladesh-measles-outbreak","tag-dghs-measles-update","tag-measles-cases-bangladesh","tag-measles-death-toll","tag-measles-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}