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A pandemic swept the entire world recently and left the health care system in many countries, including India, in tatters. Even while the entire world rightly focuses on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, an age-old disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year in low- and mid-income countries, including India: Malaria. As the world celebrates World Malaria Day on April 25, humanity is a step closer to stamping out the prehistoric disease from the face of the Earth after battling for more than two thousand years, thanks to potential vaccines.
Even today, malaria kills more than four lakh people every year across the globe. A decade ago, India was reporting more than two crore malaria cases and more than 30 thousand deaths each year. Now, the death toll in India has dropped below 1o,000—2% of total malaria deaths across…
