Eight children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Monday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,030 this year.

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

With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 930, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 100.

A total of 1,177 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 172,720.

Meanwhile, 55 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 20,124.

Since March 15 this year, a total of 152,117 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 146,400 have recovered, according to DGHS data.