India Sustained Reduction In Malaria Cases Burden: WHO
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The WHO report stated the rate of decline of Malaria in India was slower than before the pandemic with India still sharing over 80% of malaria burden of South-East Asia.
Around 14 million more cases of malaria and 69,000 more deaths due to it were reported worldwide in 2020 than in 2019 and India was the only high-burden country to have sustained a reduction in the disease burden, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report.
It, however, stated the rate of decline of the disease in India was slower than before the pandemic with the country still sharing over 80 per cent of the malaria burden of South-East Asia.
The World Malaria Report 2021, brought out by WHO, highlighted the havoc malaria continues to wreck on the world's poorest and the most vulnerable.
It also highlighted sizable gaps in malaria funding as the demand to sustain progress increased last year to $6.8 billion with only a tiny increase in malaria funding.