News24.com | Measles infection climb to 37 as Gauteng health department ramps up vaccination

More than 400 000 children have been vaccinated for measles in Gauteng.

Measles cases in Gauteng have climbed to 37.

The provincial health department said Ekurhuleni had 25 infections, Tshwane six, Johannesburg four, and Sedibeng had two infections.

The recent developments come amid the department's measles vaccination campaign in which children between 6 months and 15 years are immunised at community health care centres. 

The department set an ambitious target to immunise 4 million children in Gauteng.

On Friday, it had vaccinated 436 884 children in the five cities with 124 010 children vaccinated in Ekurhuleni, 153 383 in Johannesburg, 21 267 in Sedibeng, 87 180 in Tshwane and 51 044 in West Rand.

The department warned that adults who had not had the disease or hadn't been vaccinated could also get infected with measles.

Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, sneezing, and a sore throat.

Measles spread by contact with saliva or mucus droplets from the mouth or nose of an infected person when they sneeze or cough. 

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