Another 7 children died of measles and symptoms

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News Desk: Seven more children have died in the country in the last 24 hours with measles and measles symptoms. The health department has confirmed the death of two children from measles. The remaining five children died with symptoms of measles.

During this time, 729 children were admitted to different hospitals of the country with measles symptoms. And 82 people have been diagnosed with measles.

This information is known from the latest report of the Department of Health on Monday (April 13). This account is from 12 April 8 am to 13 April 8 am.

The two children who died of measles in the last 24 hours are from Dhaka division. And of the five children who died with symptoms of measles, four are from Dhaka division, one from Rajshahi. At this time, a maximum of 76 people were diagnosed with measles in Dhaka division. Four people have been diagnosed with measles in Rajshahi division and two in Chittagong. There are no identified patients in the rest of the categories.

The Health Department says that in the last 24 hours, 1,371 people have developed symptoms of measles across the country. 615 of them are from Dhaka division. At the same time, 729 people were admitted to hospital with measles symptoms, of which 274 were in Dhaka Division. The least number of patients were admitted in Rangpur (11) and Mymensingh (17).

713 people admitted with measles symptoms were discharged in the last 24 hours. Among them, maximum 305 patients left the hospital in Dhaka division, 12 in Rajshahi division and 103 in Chittagong and Khulna divisions.

According to the information given in the report of the Department of Health, a total of 30 children have died of measles since March 15. During this time, 156 children died with symptoms of measles. Apart from this, out of 17 thousand 24 people with measles symptoms, 10 thousand 954 people were admitted to the hospital. 2 thousand 721 of them have been diagnosed with measles. And 8 thousand 369 people returned home from the hospital after recovery.