Global malaria cases rise moderately in 2021, WHO report says

The World Health Organization said Thursday that malaria infections worldwide continued to increase in 2021 from a year earlier, mainly in Africa, although it grew at a slower pace.Neither malaria cases nor deaths sharply rose in 2021, unlike in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the WHO said. Global deaths from the disease stood at an estimated 619,000 in 2021, slightly down from the previous year's 625,000.The U.N. health body recorded 247 million malaria infections in 2021, up 2 million from 2020 and 15 million from 2019."We face many challenges, but there are many reasons for h…READ FULL ARTICLE