In the last few weeks, there have been 166 confirmed cases of the disease, with 55 per cent in Birmingham, 20 cases in London, 17 in the North West, 16 in Yorkshire and the Humber, and 15 in the East Midlands.
In October last year, there were 216 confirmed and 103 probable cases in the West Midlands, with the majority of those cases in Birmingham and among children aged under 10. The outbreak followed warnings that there had been a fall in uptake of the MMR vaccine since the pandemic.
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