ULAN BATOR, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) on Tuesday confirmed 259 new cases of measles infection, raising the national tally to 5,075.
"All the latest confirmed cases were among school-age children who have had only one shot of the measles vaccine," the NCCD said in a statement.
Meanwhile, 186 more measles patients have recovered from the disease, bringing the total number of recoveries to 3,333, it said.
In view of this, the NCCD advised parents to protect their children from a potentially severe disease by getting them two doses of the measles vaccine. ■
