China reported 30 million cases of malaria annually in the 1940s but has now gone four consecutive years without an indigenous case AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUENGENEVA: China was certified as malaria-free on Wednesday by the World Health Organization following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
Countries that have achieved at least three consecutive years of zero indigenous cases can apply for WHO certification of their malaria-free status. They must present rigorous evidence and demonstrate the capacity to prevent transmission re-emerging.The last countries to gain the status were El Salvador this year, Algeria and Argentina in 2019 and Paraguay and Uzbekistan in 2018.
The WHO's World Malaria Report 2020 said global progress against the disease was plateauing, particularly in African countries bearing the brunt of cases and deaths AFP/Saidu BAH Over 90 per cent of malaria deaths occur in Africa, the majority - more than 265,000 - in young children.In the 1950s, Beijing started working out where malaria was spreading and began to combat it with preventative anti-malarial medicines, said WHO.
By the end of 1990, the number of malaria cases in China had plummeted to 117,000, and deaths had been cut by 95 per cent.
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