Tag: 11 highest malaria burden countries largely held the line against malaria during the pandemic:

11 highest malaria burden countries largely held the line against malaria during the pandemic: India amongst them, says WHO World Malaria Report 2022 ~ India showed a decline in malaria deaths in 2021 compared to 2020~  New Delhi, December 8, 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the 2022 edition of its an nu al World Malaria Report, emphasizing the cumulative impacts the prolonged pandemic continued to weigh on th e economies and health systems of malaria-endemic countries across the globe. As per the report, there were an estimated 247 million malaria cases recorded in 2021 in 84 malaria endemic countries. However, the rate of incr ease in malaria cases was slower than that observed between 2019-2020, when the spike in the rate was associ ated with the sudden disru...