Four more people died from measles and measles-like symptoms in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, taking the country’s combined confirmed and suspected measles-related death toll to 867 this year.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), two of the latest deaths were confirmed as measles-related, while the other two were suspected cases.

The latest figures bring the confirmed death toll to 98 and suspected deaths to 769.

Meanwhile, 677 new suspected measles cases were reported during the period, raising the nationwide tally to 1,35,332. Another 99 laboratory-confirmed cases took the total confirmed infections to 17,040.

Since March 15, 1,17,444 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised nationwide, with 1,13,200 recovering, according to DGHS data.