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Saturday 28 December 2019

Samoa ends measles state of emergency as infection rate slows

Six-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 others

Samoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under control.

The South Pacific nation has been gripped by the highly infectious disease, which has killed 81 people, most of them babies and young children, and sickened more than 5,600 others.

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