Six more 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 1,263 this year.

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

With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 1,158, while confirmed deaths have remained the same at 105.

A total of 1,318 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, taking the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 232,823.

Meanwhile, 82 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, pushing laboratory-confirmed infections to 24,073.

Since March 15 this year, a total of 207,428 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 198,752 have recovered, according to the DGHS.