JOHANNESBURG - As the Easter weekend kicks off, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases is warning people to be cautious when in public as measles cases are on the rise.
The NICD confirmed that the country had recorded 911 positive cases of measles since September last year. So far, the measles outbreak has been declared in all provinces in the country, except the Eastern Cape."The measles data reported is up to epidemiological week 13, ending 29 March 2023. The NICD has tested 5,507 patients since epidemiological week 40 in September 2022. In weeks 12 and 13, 53 new measles cases were reported with a positivity rate of 21% compared to 15% in week 11."
#MeaslesOutbreakUpdate From 8 October 2022 to 29 March 2023, the NICD tested 5507 serum samples for measles of which 911 were confirmed measles cases. Read more here https://t.co/SghxT7NOSY
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