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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Virol. 2020 Jun 29;41:77–84. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2020.05.007

Table 2.

Number of confirmed measles cases and measles sequences, 2018–2019

Region Total number of confirmed measles cases Number of sequences (percent of total)
AFR 344 315 152 (0.04)
AMR 36 233 1589 (4.39)
EMR 78 589 416 (0.53)
EUR 193 113 9911 (5.13)
SEAR 118 987 2023 (1.70)
WPR 92 619 3121 (3.37)
Total 863 856 17 212 (1.99)

WHO regions as follows, AFR: African, AMR: Americas, EMR: Eastern Mediterranean, SEAR: Southeast Asian, WPR: Western Pacific). Monthly measles case-based data reported to WHO [URL: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measles_monthlydata/en/] and number of measles sequences reported to MeaNS [10••,41].