\nSpecial Correspondent \/\/<\/p>\n
File photo. Three more people died with symptoms of measles in the 24 hours leading up to 8:00 AM yesterday, Sunday. This brings the total death toll from measles and measles-like symptoms over the past six months to 1,022. Of these, 100 deaths were confirmed as measles cases, while 922 involved patients exhibiting symptoms of the disease.<\/p>\n
This information was disclosed in the regular bulletin issued by the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday. The report stated that measles was detected in 63 people across the country during this 24-hour period. Among the three newly deceased, two were from the Dhaka division and one was from the Chattogram division. The DGHS has been publishing data on infections, hospital admissions, and deaths related to measles and measles-like symptoms since March 15.<\/p>\n
Highest death toll in Dhaka
\nAccording to DGHS data, the highest number of deaths associated with measles symptoms occurred in the Dhaka division, totaling 415 so far. The Sylhet division recorded the second-highest number of deaths at 157. Additionally, deaths linked to measles symptoms were recorded as follows: 93 in Rajshahi, 77 in Mymensingh, 70 in Chattogram, 57 in Barishal, 39 in Khulna, and 14 in Rangpur divisions. In the last 24 hours, another 905 people visited various hospitals across the country with symptoms of measles; of these, 822 were admitted.<\/p>\n
The newly admitted patients include 373 from Dhaka division, 166 from Chattogram, 78 from Barishal, 74 from Khulna, 57 from Mymensingh, 31 from Rajshahi, 27 from Rangpur, and 16 from Sylhet division. This brings the total number of patients admitted to hospitals across the country for measles and measles-like symptoms to 151,024. Of these, 145,252 patients have received treatment and been discharged.<\/p>\n
According to DGHS figures, the total number of patients visiting hospitals with measles symptoms stands at 171,543. Among them, measles was confirmed in 20,069 cases through testing.<\/p>\n
The DGHS stated that not all patients arriving at hospitals with measles symptoms undergo testing. Similarly, it is not possible to test every symptomatic patient outside of hospitals for measles. Consequently, the number of confirmed cases cannot determine the actual number of people infected with measles in the country. Therefore, while the official count of confirmed cases is 20,069, the actual number of infections is likely higher.<\/p>\n
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Special Correspondent \/\/ File photo. Three more people died with symptoms of measles in the 24 hours leading up to 8:00 AM yesterday, Sunday. This brings the total death toll from measles and measles-like symptoms over the past six months to 1,022. Of these, 100 deaths were confirmed as measles cases, while 922 involved patients exhibiting symptoms of the disease. This information was disclosed in the regular bulletin issued by the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday. The report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}