Around 72 cases of measles have been reported to Public Health Wales since Thursday and a total of 77 people have been hospitalised since the outbreak, the largest in the UK for over a decade, began.
Around 50 cases of measles were reported at the beginning of the year in Wales. This more than doubled to 288 in March. So far 257 cases have been reported this month.
The measles virus is expected to spread further now that children have returned to school after the Easter holidays.
It is estimated that around 5,000 children still remain at risk from measles in the Swansea area alone.
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