Four more children died with measles symptoms in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to 8am on Thursday (12 November), and three people died of dengue in the same period, according to the measles and dengue bulletins of the Directorate General of Health Services' Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room.
Of the four children, two were in Sylhet division and one each in Dhaka and Chattogram divisions. In those 24 hours 1,384 children were found with measles symptoms and 157 with confirmed measles, 1,541 new cases in all. Dhaka division had the most, 589 children with symptoms.
Official figures put the toll since 15 March at 1,299 children: 105 deaths from confirmed measles and 1,194 with its symptoms. In all, 269,171 children have been affected, 244,291 of them suspected cases with symptoms and 24,880 confirmed. Some 218,075 children have been admitted to hospital and 209,207 discharged after recovering.
In the same 24 hours, 1,960 people were admitted to hospital with dengue: 924 in Dhaka division including the two city corporations, 261 in Chattogram, 224 in Khulna, 216 in Rajshahi, 185 in Barishal, 76 in Mymensingh, 63 in Rangpur and 11 in Sylhet. A total of 5,915 patients are now in hospital.
Since January this year, 157,628 people have been infected with dengue and 481 have died. Deaths by month: 2 in January, 2 in February, 1 in May, 13 in June, 36 in July, 43 in August, 148 in September and 174 in October. So far 151,232 patients have been discharged from hospital.
The figures are from the health directorate's bulletins, as reported by Samakal.
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Source: Samakal
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