The government of Samoa is shutting down all public services for two days to fight a measles outbreak that has killed 60 people and infected thousands of others in the South Pacific island nation over the past two months.

Nearly 3,900 cases of measles have been reported in the country, whose population is just 200,000. S chools have been shuttered since the government declared the outbreak a national emergency last month.

The shutdown, which will take place on Thursday and Friday, comes amid a resurgence of measles in dozens of countries in recent years, including in the United States, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of Congo and some European countries.

In Samoa, where vaccination rates are low, more than 150 new cases of infection were disclosed on Monday alone.