Five more children have died from measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8:00am Friday, raising the fatalities from the disease and symptoms in Bangladesh to 610.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified the latest casualties as suspected.
With the latest figure, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 519, while the confirmed deaths remained the same at 91.
A total of 1,168 suspected measles cases were recorded in 24 hours, taking the overall suspected cases to 76,876.
During the same period, 243 new confirmed measles cases were reported, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 9,503.
Since March 15, a total of 62,287 suspected measles patients were hospitalised, of whom 58,154 have recovered, according to the DGHS data.
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