Six children died with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours until 8:00am on Sunday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 908 this year.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all six latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.

With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 809, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 99.

A total of 1021 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 142,797.

Meanwhile, 80 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 17,880.

Since March 15 this year, a total of 124, 457 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 119,939 have recovered, according to DGHS data.