{"id":568020,"date":"2026-07-25T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568020\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:47:18","slug":"6-more-die-with-suspected-measles-combined-toll-reaches-816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568020\/","title":{"rendered":"6 more die with suspected measles, combined toll reaches 816"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six more patients died with symptoms consistent with measles in 24 hours until 8:00am today, raising Bangladesh&#8217;s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 816.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified the latest deaths as suspected measles fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest update, the number of suspected measles deaths has risen to 721 while the number of laboratory-confirmed measles deaths remained unchanged at 95.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 613 new suspected measles cases were reported during the period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 122,763.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 78 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 15,272.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 15, a total of 105,298 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 101,535 have recovered, according to DGHS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six more patients died with symptoms consistent with measles in 24 hours until 8:00am today, raising Bangladesh&#8217;s combined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-568020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}