{"id":1874,"date":"2026-09-05T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:59:13","slug":"measles-outbreak-4-more-deaths-917-new-cases-reported-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak: 4 More Deaths, 917 New Cases Reported in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four more people have died from confirmed measles and measles-like symptoms across the country in the past 24 hours, while 917 new suspected and confirmed cases were reported during the period.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room disclosed the information in a press release sent on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, 843 people were identified with measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of such patients to 163,105 since 15 March.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 74 people were diagnosed with confirmed measles during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 19,641 since 15 March.<\/p>\n<p>Since 15 March, a total of 143,214 patients with measles-like symptoms have been admitted to hospitals, while 137,921 have been discharged after recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Three people died from measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths from such symptoms to 891 since 15 March 15.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one person died from confirmed measles during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed measles deaths to 100 since 15 March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Daily Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more people have died from confirmed measles and measles-like symptoms across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,46],"tags":[471,472,470,473,144,468,469],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-health","tag-bangladesh-health-news","tag-confirmed-measles-cases","tag-dghs","tag-health-update","tag-measles-deaths","tag-measles-outbreak","tag-measles-like-symptoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}