Eight more children died with measles and measles-like symptoms in the last 24 hours till Monday morning, bringing the total number of deaths to 628 since March 15.
Of the new deaths, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS confirmed one death as measles-related while seven others as suspected.
With the latest figure, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 536, while the confirmed deaths remained unchanged at 92.
A total of 1,092 suspected measles cases were recorded in 24 hours, taking the overall cases to 80,104.
During the same period, 93 new confirmed measles cases were reported, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 9,779.
Since March 15, a total of 65,237 suspected measles patients were hospitalised, of whom 61, 278 have recovered.
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