Forbes October 22, 2020
Even as the world comes to grips with the mounting death toll due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO released its 2020 Global Tuberculosis Report last week. The news is not good. Nearly 1.4 million people died from TB in 2019. Of the estimated 10 million people who developed TB that year, some 3 million were either not diagnosed, or were not officially reported to national authorities.
As expected, the Covid-19 pandemic is making things worse, with 25-30% drops in TB notifications reported in 3 high burden countries – India, Indonesia, the Philippines – between January and June 2020 compared to the same 6-month period in 2019. These reductions in case notifications and ongoing disruptions to TB services could substantially...
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