Dhaka: Five children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 854 this year.

According to United News of Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported that all the latest fatalities were suspected measles deaths. With this update, the number of suspected measles deaths has increased to 758, while the number of laboratory-confirmed measles deaths remains at 96.

A total of 959 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, raising the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 132,905. Meanwhile, 124 new confirmed measles cases were documented, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 16,655.

Since March 15 this year, a total of 115,234 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 111,005 have recovered, according to DGHS data.