Overview
- The Gerencia Regional de Salud reported eight laboratory‑confirmed measles cases over the weekend, bringing Arequipa’s confirmed total to 24.
- Health authorities say 196 suspected reports have been recorded so far this year with 149 discarded and the remaining cases still under evaluation.
- Epidemiological follow‑up shows seven confirmed cases were imported from Puno and 17 were transmitted locally, with most patients aged about 10 to 30 years and few serious complications reported.
- A new shipment of 30,000 bivalent measles‑rubella doses arrived and about 6,000 have been given while regional stock sits near 10,000 doses and officials have requested an extra 60,000 from the Ministry of Health.
- Teams are using ring vaccination plus house‑to‑house searches, school and market visits to find cases and cut transmission because measles spreads quickly in under‑immunized groups and two vaccine doses give roughly 97% protection.