{"id":594442,"date":"2026-08-15T22:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594442\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:02:27","slug":"death-toll-crosses-900-as-eight-more-die-with-measles-like-symptoms-in-24hrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594442\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll crosses 900 as eight more die with measles-like symptoms in 24hrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am today, bringing the country\u2019s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 902 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) classified all eight latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 803, while confirmed deaths from measles remain at 99.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 728 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 141,776.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 70 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 17,800.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 15 this year, a total of 123,494 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 119,089 have recovered, according to DGHS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am today, bringing the country\u2019s combined tally&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-594442","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\/594442","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=594442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594442\/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=594442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}