2 Dec 2019

Samoa measles outbreak: Nearly 50 dead due to disease

From Morning Report, 7:14 am on 2 December 2019

District hospital staff in Samoa say more people are coming to get vaccinated as the death toll from measles continues to rise.

Forty-eight people are now dead due to measles - most of them children.

RNZ reporter Logan Church is in Samoa and speaks to Kim Hill.