Accordingly, in the week 46, the infectious disease monitoring system in the city recorded 211 cases of measles.The number of cases last week increased by 43.5%compared to the average 4 weeks ago, including 127 inpatient treatments (up 26.1%) and 84 outpatient cases (up 81.6%).

Accumulated from the beginning of the year, the total number of measles in Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 1,858 cases, including 3 deaths.In addition, the number of cases from other provinces treated in 4 hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City including Tropical Hospital and 3 Children's Hospitals also increased with 419 cases, up 31.1% compared to the average 4last week.From the beginning of the year until now, the number of measles accumulated from other provinces is 3,052 cases, 1 death case.Data from infectious diseases monitoring system recorded the new group of measles increased in children from 6 to under 9 months old.This is a young age group, not old enough to inject measles under the expanded vaccination program, on the other hand, this age group from mother transmitted to children has decreased below the protection level.From the beginning of the epidemic season, the number of patients from 6 to under 9 months old is 306 children, accounting for 17% of the total number of cases.

Facing the increase in the number of new measles cases, Ho Chi Minh City health sector is urgently implementing the measles vaccination campaign for children from 6 months to under 9 months of age.After 1 week of implementation, more than 3,000 children were vaccinated.In addition, the city continues to review and deploy the vaccination campaign for measles prevention vaccine for children from 1 to 10 years old in the city, as well as the vaccination of vaccines in the injection program.The extended strain for subjects has not been vaccinated or not fully injected.