{"id":598381,"date":"2026-09-12T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598381\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:21","slug":"7-more-die-with-measles-like-symptoms-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598381\/","title":{"rendered":"7 more die with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven patients 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 1,019 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified all seven latest fatalities as suspected measles deaths.<\/p>\n<p>With these, the total number of suspected measles deaths has reached 919, while confirmed deaths from measles have remained the same at 100.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 816 new suspected measles cases were reported during the 24-hour period, bringing the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 170,638.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 39 new confirmed measles cases were recorded, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 20,006.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 15 this year, a total of 150,202 patients with suspected measles have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 144,485 have recovered, according to DGHS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven patients 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":598382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-598381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}