Amid the fear of rise in coronavirus cases, Mumbai has been reporting a gradual spike in the number of measles disease.
According to a data released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Thursday, December 29, Mumbai reported five cases of measles, taking the total tally of the infection to 536.
Meanwhile, the death toll remained unchanged at 10 with no new fatality being reported on the day.
A BMC release said 24 children have been admitted and 20 were discharged during the day. The metropolis also has six suspected cases, in which the cause of death has not been confirmed as measles, officials added.
The data further stated that of the 2,60,739 children in the 9-month to 5-year age group in 78 health posts, 90,940 have been given additional doses of measles-rubella.
Recently, a resident of Mumbai Central’s Madanpura locality, the boy became the tenth confirmed casualty of the infection, with reports of five others still awaited. Three other children who died in the city were from nearby towns.
As per reports, a nine-year-old boy, who was not immunised against measles, succumbed to the viral infection recently. The cause of death was confirmed in a lab report on Wednesday, December 28. He is also the oldest child to die of measles since the fresh outbreak of the disease in the last week of September.
Mobile teams have been formed from December 24 to cover children at construction sites and other such spots, it informed.
Meanwhile, the measles tally in Maharashtra, as on December 28, is 1,238 and the death toll stands at 24, a state health department report said.
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