Three children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours ending at 8am on Tuesday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,204 this year.

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

With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,100, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 104.

A total of 1,217 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, taking the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 215,768.

Meanwhile, 42 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, pushing laboratory-confirmed infections to23,199.

Since March 15 this year, a total of 191,761 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 184,168 have recovered, according to the DGHS.