A New York county in the US will ban unvaccinated kids from public places as part of a state of emergency declared to battle a measles outbreak, officials said. PETER CARR/THE JOURNAL NEWS VIA AP Rockland County Executive Ed Day called the measles outbreak in Rockland County the worst in the US. This is nearly half of the total number of measles cases in the US in 2019 to date. 123RF There are 153 confirmed reported cases of the measles virus in Rockland County in the US. In New Zealand, there were 35 confirmed cases of the measles in Canterbury and nine cases in Auckland.

Source: Stuff March 27, 2019 03:34 UTC