At least 65 people, mostly children, have died in recent weeks as around 4,500 Samoans are infected by measles in a country of just 200,000 people.
Samoa's Government says immunisation against measles has reached 89 per cent coverage of the Pacific island's population, as it faces a deadly epidemic of the infectious disease.
campaign aimed at immunising 90 per cent of the population — thus tripling Samoa's coverage in just a few weeks. Some 120 teams had reportedly moved throughout the country to immunise as many people as possible, with authorities pledging to continue until"all of [the] nation" is covered.
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