FILE PHOTO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization attends a session on the coronavirus disease outbreak response of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland, October 5, 2020. Christopher Black/WHO/Handout via REUTERS
“Our estimates are that depending on the level of service disruption ... there could be an excess of malaria deaths of somewhere between 20,000 and 100,000 in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them in young children,” Pedro Alsonso, director of the WHO’s malaria programme, told reporters.
Due to ongoing transmission of malaria via mosquitoes in many parts of the world, half the global population is at risk of contracting the disease - and it still kills a child every two minutes. Despite this, the focus of global funding and attention has been diverted, making preventable child deaths more likely.
A reminder
They probably don’t test every single dead body with the most sensitive pcr test possible in Africa
RMConservative Disgusting
BallouxFrancois So very tragic & avoidable when we have the knowledge & means to fight it.
BallouxFrancois So then lock down these countries like is being done with covid?
RebeccaChandle1 Which the WHO is partly responsible for, having helped to deny Africans effective, natural malaria medication.
BallouxFrancois It’s very telling that the high usage of anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the plentiful vitamin D offered by sunlight has led to the lower numbers of deaths in this region
There have been 229M cases of Malaria in 2019 and 405k deaths. That is a 0.18% death rate. Covid has 62.7M cases and 1.46M deaths. That is a 2.3% death rate. Just to put things into perspective.
Don’t let the anti-maskers find out.
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Well DUH malaria is way more serious. Lmao
It does every year!! 400k per year yet WHO have been telling us to shut our economies! Covid can only be ranked among 'others' in the table of most fatal diseases in Africa
Double Whammy...malaria AND COVID-19! Help
StankaAU WHO cares? No political traction in sub Saharan Africa
It’s a shame with the kind of wealth the world owns!
Yeah, WHO DrTedros go ahead with lockdown , it seems malaria is much more fatal than the Covid. Before the Covid narrative falls apart, announce a lockdown.
Imagine!!!!! We didn't need lock downs in Africa!!!when we will africa learn to make their own decisions rather than imitating the western world? So sad
What?!?!? No way! You simply cannot die of anything else in 2020! You cant even catch evil Covid when yelling “GO JOE” on any street corner.
What does Malaria have to do with COVID19?
and Malaria's show like covid
DrTedros wearing a mask ? lmao.
Of course!
Oh my god! Lockdown everyone again because once we see a mosquito it’s too late! 🤦♀️
He’s malaria himself. He doesn’t represent Ethiopia. He is a part of criminal terrorist gangs.
In God’s name it will not. These prophets of doom predicted the same when Covid19 started yet Africa has fewer deaths than any other continent. 😰
When priorities are not well considered where they have to be
With Covid, nobody cares about other diseases.
TplfmustGo
Only because they don’t have super spread Covid rallies and vote on November 3rd
anti-Marxismlist! On my opinion, the human society is running on these: 1 technology define theoretical economic aggregate 2 labour define gross economy 3 finance system define distribution of wealth from gross economy
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