Scientists discover new chemicals that kill malaria parasite

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The World Health Organisation said in November that deaths from malaria due to disruption during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquito-borne disease will far exceed those killed by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Malaria killed more than 400,000 people across the world in 2019, according to the latest WHO figures, all but a few thousand of them in Africa. There were 229 million cases across the world, 215 million of them on the continent.

Most drugs kill malaria as it gets established in the liver or after it has infected red blood cells, but cannot tackle it once the parasite is released from the cells, which is when it is transmissible to other people via mosquito bites, she said.

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In Africa people living in the informal settlements, rural areas don't have sanitation, water facilities. Dams, rivers and streams are filled with faeces, urine, filth and unfortunately the mosquitoes are getting the blame, as they are biting the people who are using it

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