WHO sounds alarm over rise in malaria case numbers


PETALING JAYA: Various international medical groups have sounded the alarm over the rise in malaria cases around the world.

In a message in conjunction with World Malaria Day in April, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director for South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, said in the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world might not be on track to reach the global health body’s critical target for malaria by 2030.

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