{"id":605390,"date":"2026-09-19T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605390\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:56:36","slug":"measles-death-toll-reaches-1053-as-5-more-children-die-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605390\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles: Death toll reaches 1,053 as 5 more children die in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Bangladesh recorded 941 new suspected cases and 79 laboratory-confirmed infections in the latest 24-hour period.    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      19 September, 2026, 04:15 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 19 September, 2026, 04:24 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Children receive treatment during Bangladesh&#8217;s measles outbreak. Photo: Mehedi Hasan\/TBS &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"451\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/measles_tbs.jpeg\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" alt=\"Children receive treatment during Bangladesh's measles outbreak. Photo: Mehedi Hasan\/TBS &#13;&#10;\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          Children receive treatment during Bangladesh&#8217;s measles outbreak. Photo: Mehedi Hasan\/TBS &#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Five children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8am today (19 September), taking Bangladesh&#8217;s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,053 this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">With the latest deaths, the number of suspected measles-related deaths has risen to 952, while laboratory-confirmed measles deaths have reached 101, according to the DGHS daily update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The health authorities recorded 941 new suspected measles cases during the 24-hour period, taking the cumulative number of suspected cases nationwide to 1,78,666.<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Meanwhile, 79 new laboratory-confirmed cases were reported, bringing the total number of confirmed measles infections to 20,474.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Since 15 March this year, a total of 1,57,556 patients with measles-like symptoms have been hospitalised across the country, of whom 1,51,395 have recovered, according to DGHS data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh recorded 941 new suspected cases and 79 laboratory-confirmed infections in the latest 24-hour period. TBS Report 19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-605390","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\/605390","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=605390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}