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From 2000 onwards, the number of malaria cases has steadily declined, and since then 21 countries have been free of the disease.
But in its annual report on mosquito-borne disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) states that 409,000 people died as a result of malaria last year, a marginal decrease from the previous year, when 411,000 died.
– Covid-19 threatens to further undermine our efforts to overcome malaria, especially to treat them with the disease, says WHO Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti.
Most preventive measures continue according to plan, but even small disturbances can lead to large increases in the number of deaths.
The pandemic will likely see more people die this year in malaria suites. WHO expects around 20,000 to 100,000 more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa this year, most of them young children.
About 90 percent of deaths caused by malaria last year occurred in Africa. In particular, four countries are severely affected, which together account for half of the cases globally. These are Nigeria (27 percent), Congo-Kinshasa (12 percent), Uganda (5 percent), and Mozambique (4 percent).
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